The New Horizons encounter with Pluto was one of the strangest bargains in modern exploration. NASA spent almost a decade sending a small spacecraft across the solar system toward a point in space that Pluto would occupy on a single July…
NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken itself up after 321 days of hibernation. The aerospace agency sent commands to the probe last July, instructing it to commence hibernation on August 7 and then resume activity in July 2026. On July 23,…
On February 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh found a moving point of light on two photographic plates taken at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. It was not a bright object. It was not found by looking through an eyepiece and seeing a new world…
At approximately 7:49 in the morning Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, 14 July 2015 — approximately nine years, five months, and twenty-five days after departing Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas V 551 rocket at the fastest launch speed ever…
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…