Charon
Freezing Ocean Might Not Be Responsible for Cryovolcanic Flows on Pluto’s Moon, Charon
In a recent study scheduled to be published in the journal Icarus in March 2023, a team of researchers led…
Charon’s Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, started off as a beautiful, smooth red grape until someone came along, mostly peeled it, tried…
NASA is Now Considering a Pluto Orbiter Mission
NASA's New Horizons mission taught us a lot about Pluto, the ice dwarf planet. But the spacecraft sped past Pluto…
Pluto and Charon Don’t Have Enough Small Craters
The New Horizons team just shared new findings about the lack of small craters on Pluto and Charon's surface, which…
Carnival of Space #558
Welcome to the 558th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers,…
Pluto’s Charon Gets Mountains Named After Sci-Fi Authors Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke, as Well as Many Others From History and Legend. I Approve!
The IAU just approved of a dozen names for features on Pluto's moon Charon, which include mountains named after Octavia…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 456: Pluto Revisited
This week, we return to our starting point, where Astronomy Cast began: Pluto. 11 years on, we have a whole…
Hey Map Collectors, Here’s a New Map of Pluto!
Using data from the New Horizons spacecraft, the mission team has created some new maps of Pluto and its largest…
The Orbit of Pluto. How Long is a Year on Pluto?
Given its extreme distance from the Sun, Pluto has a very long orbital period. As such, a single year on…
A Farewell to Plutoshine
Sometimes, its not the eye candy aspect of the image, but what it represents. A recent image of Pluto's large…