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Rare plutonium from space found in deep-sea crustA rare type of plutonium has been found in the crust below the deep sea, offering new clues as to how heavy metals form in star explosions and mergers.
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Interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua came from an 'alien Pluto,' new study suggestsBack in 2017, a point of strange light flashed through the solar system. Three years later, a new team of scientists claims to have figured out what it was.
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Pluto's haze made up of ice crystals with cyanide heartsThe haze shrouding Pluto might be made up of ice crystals possessing cyanide hearts, a new study finds.
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Pluto's famous heart powers icy winds on the dwarf planetPluto's heart-shaped feature, which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovered during its epic July 2015 flyby of Pluto, drives atmospheric circulation on the dwarf planet, a new study suggests.
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Pluto Still Deserves to Be a Planet, NASA Chief SaysPluto lost its "official" planet status over a decade ago, but fans of the solar system's underdog are still rooting for it. And NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is one of them.
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Pluto's Battle Scars Reveal a Wild West at Solar System's Far ReachesThe battle scars on Pluto may reveal secrets about the formation of the early solar system.
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Ultima Thule Beyond Pluto Is Flat Like a Pancake (and Not a Space Snowman After All)The final photos that NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped of Ultima Thule during the probe's epic Jan. 1 flyby reveal the distant object to be much flatter than scientists had thought.
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Pluto Should Be a Planet and So Should Earth's Moon, New Study ClaimsSing along if you know the words: When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's a planet!
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Is Pluto a Planet? That Is the Question ... Again.The long-simmering argument about Pluto's planethood has just flared up again.
