Seduced by a satyr, Pluto celebrates spring. He goes around enjoying the scents, then imitating various animals. But when he imitates the butterfly (that transformed from a caterpillar before our ...

Pluto’s three month dip into Aquarius this spring will give us a preview of the themes and shifts we can expect from the dark lord moving forward. As established, Pluto’s roll is slow ...

As reported in the series of papers published this spring, for the first time, the telescope's MIRI instrument enabled separate measurements of the mid-infrared thermal emission from Pluto and ...

Its darker, reddish polar regions are thought to result from the capture and chemical transformation of CH₄ molecules escaping from Pluto’s atmosphere. The recent observations with JWST provide a ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ...