Pluto

NASA's New Horizons team is hosting a live webcast today at 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT) to discuss the historic Pluto flyby and tantalizing adventures that lie ahead.

NASA's New Horizons mission has revealed, for the first time, evidence of ice features known as "penitentes" beyond Earth.

Lacking a strong magnetic shield, Pluto's thin atmosphere is being eroded into space — but Charon is doing its bit to protect its dwarf planet buddy.

Pluto's strange "snakeskin" terrain is composed of ice ridges similar to, but much larger than, those found on Earth, a new study suggests.

The huge icy plain on Pluto known as Sputnik Planitia may not overlie an impact crater, as many researchers had assumed, a new study reports.

Pluto's famous heart-shaped feature made the dwarf planet roll over the eons, and this reorientation probably wouldn't have been possible without a subsurface ocean, new research suggests.

The northwestern chamber of Pluto's "heart" has had its name changed from Sputnik Planum to Sputnik Planitia, to better reflect the characteristics of the region.

The last piece of New Horizons flyby data reached mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, early Tuesday morning (Oct. 25), NASA officials said.

On Pluto's moon Charon, scientists have found evidence of landslides. This is the first time this geologic feature has been discovered in the Kuiper Belt, according to New Horizons scientists.

More than a half dozen clouds may have been seen in Pluto's hazy atmosphere, researchers announced today (Oct. 18).