You can't fly to Pluto. You will never have the opportunity to set foot on its inhospitable surface. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years just to get close. Don't let this deter you ...

Pluto has had a tough few years since losing its planet status. In the years since its demotion, NASA scientists found the trans-Neptunian object to be a colder, hazier hellscape than once believed, ...

We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares to our home rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...

After nine years, 3 billion miles and then 31 long hours after yesterday’s historic flyby, the first richly-detailed images of Pluto and its moons have been released. And it’s gorgeous. Images show ...

Pluto's snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. Pluto's snow-capped mountains ...

The evolution of Kuiper Belt objects, Pluto and its lone moon Charon may have something in common with Earth and our single Moon: a giant impact in the distant past. Boulder, Colo. -- January 27, 2005 ...

Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

A new study by NASA has found that markings on Pluto are like that of markings on Earth. Using a model like that of meteorologists, the study found evidence of snow and ice that up to now has only ...

New haunting images of Pluto’s surface have been released by NASA, including a wide-angle view of the Plutonian surface covered in a foggy haze and layers of atmosphere. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...

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NASA selected two proposals Wednesday for possible fly-by missions to faraway Pluto, keeping alive the possibility it will launch a spacecraft to the yet-unexplored planet. The National Aeronautics ...

Pluto’s snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. These mountains gather snow in a ...