Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever photos of Pluto in 2015, the dwarf planet's mysterious heart-shaped region has puzzled scientists.

If you stood on Pluto's surface, the Sun would merely appear to be a very bright star. Although previous images showed that something was happening on Pluto, with an average temperature of -240C ...

(Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via Getty ... could have played a crucial role in shaping the features we see on Pluto's surface today." NASA’s New Horizons mission visited Pluto in 2015 ...

Scientists have identified carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto ... "New Horizons went by the Pluto system and gave us great resolved images of Charon and Pluto in ...

Pluto seemed hopelessly cold and distant until 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons space probe beamed back images of the giant heart-shaped mark that dominates the dwarf planet’s surface.

Now, a new scientific article published in the journal Nature Communications examines images of a area containing ... recently flows or flows under the surface of Pluto. Recent activity also ...

"The heat from the impact and subsequent tidal forces could have played a crucial role in shaping the features we see on Pluto's surface today." ...

The impact would have meant that “basically the entire surface of Pluto gets resurfaced,” Dr. Denton said, with Charon losing most of the ice on its surface to its companion. “The impact is ...