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 Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on All Cars Made Outside the U.S.

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 ...

A deep basin called Sputnik Planitia, which makes up the “left lobe” of the heart, is home to much of Pluto’s nitrogen ice. The basin covers an area spanning 745 miles by 1,242 miles ...

Pluto — famous for being reclassified as a dwarf planet — might not have a heart of ice after all. In fact, every bit of Pluto was assumed to be frozen over considering its distance from the Sun.

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

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 ...