Scientists have detected evidence of landslides on Pluto for the first time. A paper published in the journal Icarus reports that images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during a flyby revealed six large landslides in three impact craters.

These mass movements of ice, rock and debris are common on Earth and have been detected elsewhere in our solar system, including Mars and Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But evidence from icy Pluto has been nonexistent until now, even though it has steep crater walls and rugged icy terrain where landslides could occur.