Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto, it does celebrate the joy of observing planets. Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of ...

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 ...

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Small, cold, and absurdly far away, Pluto has always been selfish with its secrets. Since its discovery in 1930 ...

"Pluto was found really close to where Lowell ... and go past the telescope dome where he huddled himself in the cold and ...

“Pluto’s core is so cold that the rocks remained very hard and did not melt despite the heat of the impact. Thanks to the angle of impact and the low velocity, the…impactor did not sink into ...

Although previous images showed that something was happening on Pluto, with an average temperature of -240C, many people assumed it was a cold and relatively dead world. That was until NASA's 'New ...