The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in ...

Evidence for landslides down steep crater walls on Pluto have been found in imagery from NASA's New Horizons mission.

NASA has released a map of Pluto's surface made from images recently taken by the New Horizons probe and it includes some quite mysterious features. Particularly notable is the lightened area shaped ...

Evidence of the slowing of Charon's spin period (despinning) is recorded in tectonic features on the surface of Pluto's icy ...

Learn how landslides detected on Pluto for the first time reveal the active geologic processes that shape the dwarf planet's surface. Landslides cause a lot of chaos on Earth, as rocks and other ...

And Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, is no exception. According to a new study, this icy world might redefine how scientists ...

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve ...

Recent images captured by New Horizons have unveiled six substantial landslides on Pluto, revealing intriguing gravitational ...

On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons (http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons) spacecraft will fly past Pluto, offering the first close-up look at that small, distant world and ...

The accretion of new material during Pluto’s formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet’s ...