Pluto’s frozen face looks dead at first glance, but its most famous feature hints at something far stranger than a simple ice shell. The bright heart-shaped region, and especially the basin known as ...
NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix. These ice peaks, some rising as high as 11,000 feet, are made of pure water ...
Images of Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons mission while on a flyby of the dwarf planet in July 2015 are still yielding new previously unheard-of details and insights about Pluto and its moons.