The spacecraft made historic flybys of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule, but there is still more to offer
Space Exploration
Space Exploration
Solar System
Astronomers have set up simulations to understand trans-Neptunian objects
Understanding the origin of these objects can help explain the origins of the entire Solar System
Astronomy
Heroes of Space: Clyde Tombaugh
The amateur astronomer who discovered Pluto and visited the dwarf planet after his death
Solar System
Astronomers find new evidence for Pluto’s ancient glaciation
This latest research focuses on one of the most enigmatic landforms yet seen on the dwarf planet Pluto
Solar System
Why is Charon almost exactly the same size as Pluto?
Is there a reasoning behind it or is it still a mystery? We take a look…
Space Exploration
Could there be an orbiter at Pluto in the near future?
Scientists and engineers are seriously discussing the possibility of sending an orbiter to Pluto and beyond into the Kuiper Belt
Solar System
Why is Pluto no longer a planet?
What is it about Pluto that made astronomers – such as the likes of Dr Mike Brown, Professor of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – insist on its declassification?
Space Exploration
New Horizons Update: New global maps of Pluto and Charon released
Now, thanks to the efforts of the team behind the spacecraft, the first official validated topographical maps published and are available to all
Solar System
Pluto could be a ‘giant comet’
New research into the formation of Pluto explores the idea that the dwarf planet was originally formed from ancient comets
Solar System
Is it possible for Neptune and Pluto to collide given that their orbits cross?
A head-on collision, a near miss or not even possible? We find out if these two planets can actually collide
Solar System
Pluto’s moon gets its first surface feature names
Almost three years after NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Charon, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named some of its landmarks
Space Exploration
NASA needs you! Help nickname New Horizons’ next flyby target
The team behind the Pluto mission is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a billion miles past the dwarf planet
Space Exploration
VIDEO: Check out this brand new flyover movie of Pluto as you’ve never seen it before
Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of the dwarf planet, mission scientists have created a film that offers a spectacularly new perspective
Solar System
Hubble spies moon around third largest dwarf planet
The pair reside in the frigid outskirts of our Solar System called the Kuiper Belt
News
FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 64
We go on a hunt for white holes in the latest issue of All About Space, out now!
News
Astronomers investigate possibility of exotic life in Pluto’s oceans
The dwarf planet raises the question of whether some truly novel life forms could exist on such a frigid world
News
New Horizons Update: Spacecraft returns final bits of data from Pluto flyby
The NASA mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from its flyby – arrived safely on Earth
News
New Horizons Update: ‘Dead Sea’ ocean suspected under Pluto’s ‘heart’
A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf planet’s past offers new insights into the possibility of a 100-kilometre body of water beneath its surface
News
Astronomers shed more light on Pluto’s heart-shaped ‘iceberg’
What is the origin of the large nitrogen glacier on Pluto revealed by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015?
News
New Horizons Update: Pluto found to spray paint largest moon red
“Who would have thought that Pluto is a graffiti artist?”