When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it imaged only one side of Charon. It found that Charon's north polar region, called Mordor Macula, is red. In fact, the dark ...

We are less than two weeks away from the 95th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto, the ice-caked, rocky sphere orbiting around 3.7 billion miles from the sun. To mark the occasion, The Lowell ...

Pluto isn't alone—it's part of the Kuiper Belt with possibly hundreds of other planet-sized objects. Because Pluto hasn't ...

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 ...

underworld journeys and the dark and dangerous heart that beats below the veneer of civilization and the crust of the Earth itself. Sunny stuff it ain’t. Pluto moved out of Capricorn and into ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark patches. The best Hubble Telescope images were only 150 pixels across. The new pictures show much more ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

"We're planning to have a much closer look at this in the future to determine which conditions not only reproduce Pluto and Charon as bodies but also put Charon in the right spot, where it is today." ...

The name was fitting since Pluto is located in the cold, dark outer reaches of the solar system. However, over the years, astronomers learned that Pluto was not unique. It was just one of many ...