When NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it gave humanity our first glimpse of a colossal depression on the isolated world. It's named Sputnik Planitia. Comparable in size to ...
This new theory helps explain the large, 1,600-kilometer-wide heart-shaped area on Pluto's surface covered by a thick layer of nitrogen ice, which has intrigued scientists since its discovery by ...
When Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 ... It must have enough mass to draw itself into a round shape. It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from ...
Artistic representation of the huge and slow impact on Pluto that led to the heart-shaped Sputnik ... [+] Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever ...
For one reason or another, some people are still upset about Pluto's demotion from planet to dwarf planet. This demotion, by the way, occurred all the way back in 2006. So, what does famed ...