The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the same unexplained absorption signal on the surfaces of two very different frozen worlds, Pluto and Titan. Both show a dip at the same point in their spectra, and so far no one has been able…
Before New Horizons reached Pluto, the safest expectation was age. At nearly 40 times Earth’s distance from the Sun, Pluto seemed like the kind of world that should preserve scars. Cold, remote, small and ancient, it was expected to carry…
International sales outfit Pluto Film has acquired comedy “Chica Checa,” which is making its world premiere at the upcoming Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Written and directed by Šimon Holý, “Chica Checa” explores a widow’s journey as she…
Pluto and Goofy are now meeting in a new location together at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Meeting Location Pluto and Goofy are now meeting with guests near the back of Animal Kingdom. They have been posted there continuously since at least…
On 18 February 1930, a young man named Clyde Tombaugh sat at a blink comparator in Flagstaff, Arizona, and noticed a faint point of light that had shifted position between two photographic plates. The plates had been taken on 23 and 29…
There’s been a fierce debate over the past two decades about the status of the distant icy world of Pluto after it was contentiously stripped of its planethood and reclassified as a dwarf planet.
Astronomers are puzzling over another oddball on the edge of the solar system: This time, it's an icy object less than a quarter of Pluto's size with a thin atmosphere – a layer of gas that's not typically found around objects so small.