It would be like a crater on Earth’s crust, which may develop plant life over the decades but is still visible as a large impact area on the underlying ground. But Pluto has other craters that ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

Pluto and its moon's mountains and craters are being named after sci-fi heroesPluto and its moon's mountains and craters are being named after sci-fi heroes ...

Pluto will mark a birthday of sorts on March ... it has a surface marked by mountains and craters and valleys and plains; it is home to abundant quantities of water ice and may even harbor a ...

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 ...