In this case, it was water that quickly became ice once it reached the frigid temperatures of Pluto’s surface. “The way these features look is very different than any volcanoes across the ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

Images of Pluto's surface revealed ice volcanoes, hinting at the possibility of life, according to a new photo analysis published Tuesday in Nature Communications. The images, captured by NASA's ...

"We see water ice on Pluto for the first time ... nicknamed Mordor to pay tribute to the dark land in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The picture also shows linear features and ...

Dive into the frozen mysteries of Pluto! From its unexpected landscapes to the quest for a subsurface ocean, explore the dwarf planet's secrets and why it's more intriguing than ever! North Korea ...

Kiladze Caldera, formerly called Kiladze crater, may be a supervolcano that erupted fairly recently, spewing ice across the surface of Pluto. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Olkin said the science team had nicknamed the area Mordor, the realm of the evil sorcerer Sauron in the "Lord of the ... the surface of Pluto is covered in a lot of nitrogen ice, methane ice ...

Readings from NASA’s New Horizons probe have shown that Pluto possesses mountains of water ice that rise as high as 11,000 feet, and there’s also evidence of tectonic activity associated with ...

"Water-ice at Pluto temperatures is strong enough to hold ... after the region in the fictional land of Middle Earth in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books. The first well resolved picture of ...