When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in 2015, it returned images with a sweet surprise: a heart-shaped formation dominating the surface of the dwarf planet. Now, researchers believe ...
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...
Downgraded from a bonafide planet to a ... than most of Pluto's surface. "The bright appearance of Sputnik Planitia is due to it being predominantly filled with white nitrogen ice that moves ...