It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an incredibly distant and barely seen by telescopes ice dwarf remained an almost complete ...

Charon| NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before the spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. The changing faces of Pluto ...

Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in ...

Meanwhile, the New Horizons spacecraft has basic optics and is now about 6.5 billion miles distant (twice as far from the sun as Pluto). So they had drastically different viewpoints on the giant ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Scientists have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. This marks the first discovery of ...