Latest about Pluto
Pluto's atmosphere gets its blue haze from icy organic compounds, study suggests
The haze shrouding Pluto might be made up of ice crystals possessing cyanide hearts, a new study finds.
The mountains on Pluto have super weird methane ice snowcaps
Mountains on Pluto have snowcaps that may have formed from the top down as opposed to the bottom up, the reverse of how snow caps form on Earth, a new study finds.
Glaciers on Pluto might 'grow' with the seasons
Methane and nitrogen glaciers on Pluto expand and "grow" in response to temperature changes on the dwarf planet, new research suggests.
Surprise! Pluto may have had an underground ocean from the very beginning
Though Pluto is now famously frigid, it may have started off as a hot world that formed rapidly and violently, a new study finds.
Pluto's wispy atmosphere may be surprisingly robust
Pluto's thin, blue-tinged air may not collapse when the dwarf planet is far from the sun.
Meet the unknown female mathematician whose calculations helped discover Pluto
Pluto's discovery wouldn't have been possible, astronomers have realized, without the calculations of a mathematician whom history has forgotten.
Pluto's famous heart powers icy winds on the dwarf planet
Pluto's heart-shaped feature, which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovered during its epic July 2015 flyby of Pluto, drives atmospheric circulation on the dwarf planet, a new study suggests.
Pluto and Titan are surprisingly hazy, but scientists are fuzzy on exactly why
NASA's New Horizons mission turned Pluto from a fuzzy blob into a detailed, geophysically complex world. But it's still a little fuzzy, as it turns out.
