Pluto’s recategorization as a dwarf planet may have caused some past anger, but there has never been a better time to be a Pluto fan. Since the New Horizons mission gave us our first real look at ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists integrated NASA’s New Horizons discoveries with data from ESA’s Rosetta mission to develop a new theory about how Pluto may have formed at the edge of our solar ...

Researchers Tanguy Bertrand and François Forget at the University of Paris simulated how icy deposits on Pluto’s surface would evolve and change over the last 50,000 Earth years. The model helped ...

Expectations for active geology on Pluto were pretty low prior to the arrival of the New Horizons probe. But the photos that came back from the dwarf planet revealed a world of mountains, ridges, and.

We present a 3D general circulation model of Pluto and Triton’s atmospheres, which uses radiative-conductive-convective forcing. In both the Pluto and Triton models, an easterly (prograde) jet is ...

Perianne E. Johnson, James T. Keane, Leslie A. Young, Isamu Matsuyama We present a coupled reorientation and climate model, to understand how true polar wander (TPW) and atmospheric condensation ...

As the New Horizons spacecraft is approaching Pluto, it's getting some great shots. The animation below shows Pluto and Charon as they orbit each other. When a planet (or dwarf planet) has a satellite ...

Scientists integrated NASA's New Horizons discoveries with data from ESA's Rosetta mission to develop a new theory about how Pluto may have formed at the edge of our solar system. Southwest Research ...