If a person with a mass of 55kg was to travel to Jupiter or Pluto, the effects of gravity would be very different from those on Earth. Gravity is the pull that a planet exerts towards its centre.

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

(Pluto has four smaller moons besides Charon.) For example, Mars is orbited by two tiny potato-shaped moons called Phobos and ...

A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.

A young surface suggests that the planet may still be geologically active, but scientists are uncertain about what form that activity may take. It was thought that other icy worlds were shaped by the ...

Viewed in this longer context, the previously modern idea of having nine planets, which came about in the 1960s and lasted only until 2006, was a blip on the screen. And if you are still a Pluto ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

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 ...