There’s no other place in the solar system that has such an atmosphere, except perhaps Neptune’s moon Triton. “This whole concept of Pluto’s beating heart is a wonderful way of thinking ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

I have been working with my research advisor, Leslie Young (Southwest Research Institute), on surface spectra of Pluto, Charon, and Triton. Upcoming and ongoing work includes reduction of Keck/OSIRIS ...

Pluto is too far away from Earth to be seen with the naked eye. If you stood on Pluto's surface, the Sun would merely appear to be a very bright star. Although previous images showed that ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...