Since its discovery in 1930, the dwarf planet has revolved beyond ... (Read more on Nadia Drake’s blog at National Geographic, No Place Like Home.) “The Pluto we imagined will just go away ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the past and future orbits of the planets. The first clue came from Pluto. The oddball of the solar system, it ...

Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto, it does celebrate the joy of observing planets. Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of ...

Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in ...

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.

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. It took humans thousands of years to explore our own planet and centuries to comprehend our neighboring planets ...