Pluto’s mesmerizing heart was captured for the first time in 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons mission and has intrigued scientists ever since. The researchers believe that billions of years ago ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday morning, and even though we've only seen a small trickle of data so far, the findings are already surprising scientists.

Although previous images showed that something was happening on Pluto, with an average temperature of -240C, many people assumed it was a cold and relatively dead world. That was until NASA's 'New ...

Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust research to educational programmes ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading home after the SpaceX capsule sent to rescue them ...