Japanese scientists say that liquid-water subsurface oceans on Pluto are kept from freezing over thanks to an insulating layer of gas hydrates — a discovery that could mean the distant dwarf ...

English physicist and particle physics professor Brian Cox hinted that the massive glaciers and icy mountains recently discovered on Pluto's surface could provide clues regarding the existence of ...

Studies on Pluto’s ice volcanoes are still ongoing, but they may lead us down some interesting paths, like whether the dwarf planet’s frozen water and ammonia may contain or encourage alien life.

The furthest reaches of our solar system may hold the key to finding evidence of alien life. While it’s a long shot that life will actually resemble human life like you and I, a new study ...

A NASA Pluto probe may end up with one final mission after its work exploring the outer solar system is done — carrying a message to advanced alien civilizations.

Pluto has again stunned researchers in the latest pictures downloaded from NASA’s New Horizons probe. The images, taken just 15 minutes after the spacecraft’s closest approach to the dwarf ...

Scientists wanting to learn more about how to find families of planets are getting some lessons from Pluto and its partner moon Charon.

The Pluto flyover begins at highlands near a nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia, passes a pock-marked landscape bordered by alien mountain ranges and ends over the Tartarus Dorsa ...

The hit parade from NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto continued on Friday with views of an alien-looking plain in the dwarf planet's "heart," dark streaks on the surface that look like ...

They sure look like ice volcanoes. An avalanche of data and new interpretations just released from NASA’s New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto on 14 July, are showing the dwarf planet has a ...