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 ...

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 ...

Far from being flat and boring, Pluto seemed to be full of mountains, plains and maybe even ... of bodies - those considered dead, distant and cold - may actually be teeming with hidden activity.

The study's authors think that Pluto's winds have deposited sand grain-sized crystals of methane between the mountains bordering Sputnik Planitia and the plains itself, creating these dunes.

Hills of water-ice appear to be floating atop the frozen nitrogen within Pluto's icy heart ... think that the hills are probably bits of ice mountains that have fallen into the flat, nitrogen ...

Today, we marvel at its icy plains, towering mountains, and stunningly ... of atmospheric processes on small, cold worlds. Our understanding of Pluto expanded tremendously. Telescopes can get ...

Its surface features a variety of landscapes, including mountains, valleys ... October show Scientists believed that Pluto’s extremely cold surface temperature of -220°C, which causes even ...