To follow up on NASA’s New Horizons mission that revealed Pluto’s “heart,” SwRI is studying a new Pluto orbiter mission for NASA. SwRI has shown it is possible to orbit Pluto and then escape orbit to ...

NASA’s Hubble telescope this week got some great pictures of our most distant planet Pluto, showing what space agency researcher’s called an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world. But while the ...

When New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, NASA expected a cold, cratered fossil at the edge of the solar system. Instead it ...

For a celestial object that may or may not be a planet, Pluto sure is getting a lot of attention these days. Just days after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that Pluto should be given back its ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine – a politician who’s probably seen one or two episodes of “Cosmos” – has officially declared Pluto a planet again. His reasoning: that’s the way he learned it in high school ...

NASA has commissioned Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to study the feasibility of sending an orbital mission to Pluto. One of 10 mission studies funded by NASA for the Planetary Science Decadal ...

But this is a preliminary study, not a commitment to develop the mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA is thinking about ...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes that Pluto should be a planet again. “I am here to tell you, as the NASA Administrator, I believe Pluto should be a planet,” he said, to applause during a ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Pluto, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The long-standing debate over Pluto's planethood recently got a public boost from NASA ...