Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto, it does celebrate the joy of observing planets. Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of the ...

Trapped gas could be tainting the north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon dark red. After last summer’s Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data back to Earth – at 2 kilobits per second ...

Pluto TV announced its "Diane Keaton Remembered" collection on Monday. The free-to-watch collection features 15 movies starring Keaton, who died Saturday. Science News // 4 months ago Pluto photos ...

A new theory proposes that Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was formed billions of years ago through a rare "kiss-and-capture" collision in the Kuiper Belt. This process involves two icy bodies briefly ...

How things have changed for good old Pluto. I’m not talking about the Disney dog, of course, but the “dwarf planet,” as it is now known. When I was a kid (not that long ago), Pluto was indeed a planet ...

NASA published its most detailed image yet, taken one day before the flyby. Even better images are still to come. NASA is set to make history shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday when the New Horizons ...

NASA just released the first frame of the high-resolution scans of Pluto. The new image is zoomed into less than one percent of Pluto’s surface. It was published less than 24 hours after NASA received ...

Pluto may have two ice volcanoes that spew water ice, nitrogen, ammonia, and methane onto the dwarf planet’s surface, NASA announced today. The potential volcanoes were spied near Pluto’s south pole, ...

A spacecraft on its way to Pluto has just woken up from hibernation. By next month, scientists expect to have the first good pictures of the dwarf... Oh, Snap! NASA Promises Best Photo Yet Of Faraway ...

The New Horizons spacecraft is only hours away from its closest approach to Pluto. It’s hoped the brief encounter will help answer many questions about the oddball member of our solar system. Pluto is ...