Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite of enhanced color images of Pluto and Charon taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

Pluto, once thought to be a frozen and lifeless world drifting on the edge of our solar system, may be harboring one of its ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her colleagues opted for the name Persephone, after Pluto's wife and "queen of the ...

One of the closest and brightest globular clusters visible from Earth, M22 contains hundreds of thousands of stars packed into a tight, elliptical shape about 10,000 light-years away. Photograph by ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...