Pluto Is Now a 'Plutoid'

Two years after it was stripped of its privileges as a planet, Pluto takes a new hit coming from the International Astronomical Union which has taken it out of the dwarf planet family and placed it into a rather strange new one called 'plutoids'. The IAU decided in 2006 that Pluto s... [ read more >> ]

Artistic impression of Charon and a possible new satellite seen from the surface of Pluto

Image comment: Artistic impression of Charon and a possible new satellite seen from the surface of Pluto
Image credits: David A. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Artistic impression of Charon and a possible new satellite seen from the surface of Pluto