“Sputnik Planitia may be as important for Pluto’s climate as the ocean is for Earth’s climate,” explained Bertrand. “If you remove Sputnik Planitia – if you remove the heart of Pluto ...

I am a Pluto climate scientist! I investigate how Pluto's climate and atmosphere are coupled to its surface ices and how they have varied with time over the age of the solar system. I use numerical ...

Pluto was the little planet that could — until it couldn’t. Discovered in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Pluto was hailed as the ninth planet in our solar system. For ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies in the outer solar ...

(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun. The correct number is 3.7 billion miles.) What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague?