Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

So things stood for 65 years. Although Pluto's orbit was more elongated than the other planets' (and even crossed the orbit of Neptune—not the kind of thing you would expect a decent planet to ...

Pluto fails the third criterion because its orbit overlaps with objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune. So, a new class of celestial object — the dwarf planet — came ...

The RTL-SDR dongles get most of the love from people interested in software-defined radio, but the Pluto is also a great option, too. [FromConceptToCircuit] shares code to turn one of these radios ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In this video, NASA describes a new kind of fusion powered spacecraft that could reach Pluto, orbit it, and even land on it. Video courtesy of NASA. Follow Tech ...

There are regions in Pluto where huge ice structures exist. Scientists finally think they know how they are formed. Scientists have solved one of Pluto's most puzzling mysteries. In 2015 ...

One star whirls in a tight dance around the black hole every 6.5 days, while the second star lies vastly farther away, beyond even Pluto’s orbit around our Sun, taking an impressive 70,000 Earth ...

Carrying enough fuel to slow it into a Pluto-centric orbit would have added lots of weight and years of travel time; instead, it will zoom past, snapping photos as it goes. Pluto is the second ...