A team from the University of Arizona has made a startling new discovery about the formation of Pluto and its moon. Published ...

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the smallest of the nine classical planets and the largest ...

Instead of a typical planet-moon setup, Pluto and Charon became a binary system. They circle a shared point in space, locked in a delicate, endless orbit. Their strange gravitational dance has ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

Pluto (smaller sphere) and its moon Charon are the first guideposts of the Kuiper Belt. They may help reveal why planets long ago stopped forming in the outer solar system. Illustration by Ron ...

But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological features. There was more, on Pluto itself, that recalled the American mid-west. Dark streaks on Pluto's plains ...

In June 2016, NASA released a new photo of Charon, one of Pluto's moons, which shows a deep crack that is actually longer and deeper than the Grand Canyon. Produced by Arielle Berger. Original ...

An SwRI-led team detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide spectral signatures on Pluto’s largest moon Charon using Webb telescope observations (white), which extend the wavelength coverage ...

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I have been working with my research advisor, Leslie Young (Southwest Research Institute), on surface spectra of Pluto, Charon, and Triton. Upcoming and ongoing work includes reduction of Keck/OSIRIS ...