Scientists are hoping to use the craters dotting Pluto’s and Charon’s surfaces to take a survey of the Kuiper belt population and reconstruct how it has changed over time. Although tricky to ...

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 surface does not have a single impact crater, indicating ...

The level of detail was staggering: individual craters, ridges, and valleys were visible for the first time. The spacecraft also captured breathtaking images of Pluto’s hazy atmosphere.

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

The scarcity of craters suggests that Charon and Pluto have seen geological activity in the relatively recent past that erased the traces of earlier impacts, researchers said. Scientists knew this ...

Pluto is probably best known for being a demoted planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped it of its ...

For starters, we didn't know Pluto had craters until today. "We didn't really start seeing craters until the image released today - the pictures simply weren't sharp enough till now," Curt Niebur ...

Images from New Horizons revealed another unexpected feature: an area of the planet featuring a range of mountains rising to 3,500 metres from the surface, surrounded by smooth terrain with few signs ...