According to data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft, 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 ...

NASA on Friday released its first glimpse of a strange mosaic of ice on Pluto. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

Instead of a barren ice ball, Pluto featured vast plains of nitrogen ice, jagged mountains made of water ice, and intricate networks of frozen canyons. Its heart-shaped region, informally called ...

“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 ...

with a massive impactor striking the young Pluto in the Solar System's ancient past, thereby casting off a large field of ice and rock debris which subsequently coalesced into the proto-Charon.

But we have reason to believe Pluto's heart is a bit warmer than the ice the covers it. Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took ...

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However, some scientists argue that Pluto should be considered a planet based on geological activity rather than orbital mechanics. NASA’s New Horizons mission revealed ice mountains ...