We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares to our home rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since ...

Pluto has had a tough few years since losing its planet status. In the years since its demotion, NASA scientists found the trans-Neptunian object to be a colder, hazier hellscape than once believed, ...

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A new study by NASA has found that markings on Pluto are like that of markings on Earth. Using a model like that of meteorologists, the study found evidence of snow and ice that up to now has only ...

Pluto’s snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. These mountains gather snow in a ...

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When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped by Pluto at 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) per hour in July 2015, it captured a plethora of breathtaking photos of the distant dwarf planet’s surface.

Pluto’s snow-capped mountains look like they belong on Earth, but researchers have discovered that the snowy tops of these features are actually made of methane frost. These mountains gather snow in a ...

In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed ...