Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

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 surface does not have a single impact crater, indicating ...

Pluto and its moon's mountains and craters are being named after sci-fi heroesPluto and its moon's mountains and craters are being named after sci-fi heroes ...

The Tombaugh Regio, the heart’s formal name, has baffled ... teardrop-shaped crater. Simulations show that the cataclysmic collision would have displaced Pluto’s primordial mantle.

Images from New Horizons revealed another unexpected feature: an area of the planet featuring a range of mountains rising to 3,500 metres from the surface, surrounded by smooth terrain with few signs ...

There's also the Clarke and Kubrick mountains named for the author (Arthur C. Clarke) and director (Stanley Kubrick) of "2001: A Space Odyssey." There's also Alice for "Alice in Wonderland," Argo ...

For starters, we didn't know Pluto had craters until today. "We didn't really start seeing craters until the image released today - the pictures simply weren't sharp enough till now," Curt Niebur ...