“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Pipe Lines Under The Ocean, was a daring and top-secret British engineering plan designed as a collaboration between the ...

But Pluto has in many ways only grown in astronomers’ estimations. It is now known to be part of an entire system of objects, gravitationally anchoring a cluster of five moons; it has a surface marked ...

"Pluto is a complex and mysterious world with mountains, valleys, plains, craters, and glaciers. It is located in the distant Kuiper Belt," the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.

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The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Visit Lowell Observatory, the renowned astronomical research facility where Pluto was discovered. Spend a day in nature at Walnut Canyon, Wupatki and Sunset Crater National Monuments. If you're ...