It started, as many cosmic enigmas do, with a dim dot of light on a Hubble Space Telescope photo the sort that professional astronomers are used to seeing, but never expect to upend discussion of the ...

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Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active ...