Pluto
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By Charles Q. Choi Published
The haze shrouding Pluto might be made up of ice crystals possessing cyanide hearts, a new study finds.

By Charles Q. Choi Published
Mountains on Pluto have snowcaps that may have formed from the top down as opposed to the bottom up, the reverse of how snow caps form on Earth, a new study finds.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Methane and nitrogen glaciers on Pluto expand and "grow" in response to temperature changes on the dwarf planet, new research suggests.

By Charles Q. Choi Published
Though Pluto is now famously frigid, it may have started off as a hot world that formed rapidly and violently, a new study finds.

By Mike Wall Published
Pluto's thin, blue-tinged air may not collapse when the dwarf planet is far from the sun.

By Meghan Bartels Published
Pluto's discovery wouldn't have been possible, astronomers have realized, without the calculations of a mathematician whom history has forgotten.

By Mike Wall Published
Pluto's heart-shaped feature, which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovered during its epic July 2015 flyby of Pluto, drives atmospheric circulation on the dwarf planet, a new study suggests.

By Meghan Bartels Published
NASA's New Horizons mission turned Pluto from a fuzzy blob into a detailed, geophysically complex world. But it's still a little fuzzy, as it turns out.
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