Is it possible to view Pluto from a backyard telescope? Ethan Spyker Wadsworth, Ohio If I'm being honest, Pluto is difficult for an amateur astronomer to see. A standard 8-inch telescope just won ...

Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

This week is the best time of year to spot Pluto in the night sky with your telescope. That's because On Monday, July 6, Pluto reached opposition, meaning it appears opposite the sun in our sky.

It was October 2001, and a leaky Lindley Hall roof and Lawrence light pollution had rendered the 1929 telescope — which had been refurbished by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh — nearly useless.

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was ...

Christy had been imaging Pluto with the USNO's 1.5-meter (4.9-foot) telescope. Because Pluto is so far from the sun — more than 3 billion miles (4.8 million km), on average — it appears as ...

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Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto, it does celebrate the joy of observing planets. Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of ...

Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark patches. The best Hubble Telescope images were only 150 pixels across. The new pictures show much more ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Unless you’re really on the low end of our listener age bell curve, chances are you grew up learning about our ...

For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the size of the dwarf planet. Now, new research suggests that Pluto and ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...