According to data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft, scientists say that Pluto is likely to have water ice, geysers, and volcanoes. The ice mountains are 11,000 feet high, and the planet's ...

Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public ... allowing salt water to ooze out of ice volcanoes. Astrobiologists have wondered if simple, microbial life could exist ...

When the probe flew over today's dwarf planet in 2015 it took never ... which can be seen on Pluto's surface, suggesting that ice volcanoes were active relatively recently, and that Pluto's ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

A dwarf planet ... of Pluto. It's also quite an interesting oddball. It's the only dwarf planet closer to the Sun than ...

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NASA on Friday released its first glimpse of a strange mosaic of ice on Pluto. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

However, some scientists argue that Pluto should be considered a planet based on geological activity rather than orbital mechanics. NASA’s New Horizons mission revealed ice mountains ...