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Gorgeous 'Twilight Zone' Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time
By Mike Wall published
A spectacular new image of Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons probe shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skies.

Tour 3D Pluto in New Portable Virtual-Reality View
By Sarah Lewin published
Get your Google Cardboards ready, because it's time to take a 3D trip to Pluto.

Pluto Behaves More Like a Planet Than Thought
By Jason Major published
Surprisingly, Pluto is able to maintain a gravitational grasp on much of its atmosphere even as ions are being stripped away by the solar wind.

What Bit a Chunk Out of Pluto's Ice?
By Ian O'Neill published
NASA's New Horizons has found an icy oddity that highlights one of the key processes that is believed to shape this dwarf planet's surprisingly young surface.

Cloudgate: Rumors Spread of Nitrogen Clouds on Pluto
By Jason Major published
It what could soon be called 'Cloudgate,' 'leaked' emails appear to discuss structures in Pluto’s already hazy atmosphere as clouds.

Pluto's North Pole Carved Up by Long Canyons (Photo)
By Elizabeth Howell published
A newly released image of Pluto's icy north pole from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft shows many geological features pointing to historical events on the dwarf planet.

Pluto's Moons | Five Satellites of Pluto
By Tim Sharp published
Five moons orbit the dwarf planet Pluto: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx.
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