The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted new evidence of complex organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on the frigid surface of Pluto, a new study finds.

University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of ...

This image shows "extension faults" that indicate a subsurface ocean is freezing below the icy crustCredit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex ...

Images and data have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby on Tuesday morning, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon. The ...

The icy dwarf planet Pluto undergoes dramatic seasonal changes, according to images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The pictures from Hubble revealed changes in the brightness and the colour of Pluto ...

Until the recent event of New Horizons getting its first glimpse of Pluto in July 2015, we knew very little about our distant, dwarf relative. With the recent array of closer images and data being ...

The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, is still making new findings. Most recently, researchers used its data to find traces of ammonia on Pluto’s surface. Intriguingly, the ...

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons flew by Pluto. At a resolution of only 80 meters (260 feet) per pixel, Pluto was revealed at resolutions thousands of times better than Hubble. The mountains only ...