Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

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.

You have a sky, but it's pink. You have sunsets ... The reason that I think Pluto is the coolest planet is partially because it's on the frontier, and the frontier of our knowledge.

Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever photos of Pluto in 2015, the dwarf planet's mysterious heart-shaped region has puzzled scientists.

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 ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was identified as the ninth planet until reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 following the landmark discovery of several similarly sized trans-Neptunian Objects or ...