According to data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft, 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 ...

Using data collected by the spacecraft’s LEISA spectral imager, researchers are uncovering the true nature of Nix’s surface coarse, pure water ice that behaves like rock due to the extreme cold of ...

Far from being flat and boring, Pluto seemed to be full of mountains, plains and maybe even "snow". By measuring the size of the shadows, we could estimate the height of these peaks at over 4,000m ...

In the vast expanse of our solar system, far beyond the reaches of Earth, there lies a frozen world Pluto. But one of its moons, Nix, has just captured our imagination with an astonishing ...

That engine fashioned Pluto’s rich tapestry of flowing glaciers, jagged mountains and other unfamiliar terrestrial features on the surface. To date, only a single mission, the 2015 New Horizons ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...