Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies in the outer solar system. They had expected to find that the surfaces of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have peered into a mysterious blue haze cloaking the surface of Pluto — and discovered that it's controlling the dwarf planet's climate and atmosphere.

JWST detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Charon's surface. Hydrogen peroxide suggests ongoing chemical reactions on Charon. Charon's carbon dioxide likely came from below its surface.

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago, ...

Scientists expected Pluto’s surface to be pocked with craters. Its orbit traverses the Kuiper Belt, which is filled with up to a trillion icy objects. Repeat collisions are inevitable over billions of ...

CLEVELAND - Following released images of Pluto taken during the New Horizons flyby, NASA today released an animation of the distant planetoid's surface. The animation is based on images that were then ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, carrying the ashes of the late Clyde Tombaugh, flew less than 8,000 miles from the surface of Pluto at 4:49 a.m. Arizona time today. The mission celebrated with the ...