NASA’s New Horizons mission gave humanity its first detailed look at Pluto before continuing billions of miles deeper into ...

Pluto’s snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. These mountains gather snow in a ...

Pluto is the only place other than Earth in our solar system that's known to have white-peaked mountains, but these white caps aren't made of snow. Instead, they're made of methane frost. And, ...

In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed ...

A string of snowcapped, frosty mountains dot a dark part of Pluto's landscape. Scientists using photos taken by the New Horizons spacecraft have just found the mountains in Cthulhu Regio, a darkly ...

The methane-capped mountains of Pluto’s Cthulhu region. False color images, in purple, show methane across the region correlates with the snow caps. Gazing at Pluto’s Cthulhu mountain range from space ...

Many denizens of Earth fell in love with the distant dwarf planet when the first images came back this summer showing Pluto’s 'heart.' That affection and intrigue has only deepened as more images and ...

Nearly six months after NASA’s New Horizons probe zoomed past Pluto, just one quarter of the data stored on board has made its way back to waiting scientists, revealing a surprisingly varied terrain ...

In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy ...