Mapping Pluto A spinnable map of Pluto in enhanced color. Rippled hills An enhanced color image of a “snakeskin” texture on part of Pluto’s surface. Sputnik Planum A high-resolution ...

(All of the feature names on Pluto are informal ... "There is a pronounced difference in texture between the younger, frozen plains to the east and the dark, heavily cratered terrain to the ...

(NEW YORK) — Pluto continues to surprise scientists who ... The latest curiosity: A photo showing a snakeskin-like texture on the surface of the dwarf planet. "It's a unique and perplexing ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Evidence is mounting for an ocean at Pluto, buried beneath its frozen heart. Scientists said Wednesday that Pluto may have rolled over on its axis eons ago ...

What Pluto can teach us about planets and our solar system : Short Wave Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size ...

Scientists have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, offering clues about the origins of the space rock and other celestial objects in ...

NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI In 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped the first close-up photos of Pluto and its surrounding moons during a historic fly-by. The images revealed Pluto's vivid ...