Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

We know about Pluto. But we don’t really know it. That will change on July 14, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly within 8,000 miles of the frozen dwarf. It’s a risky ...

There are practical and sentimental reasons for that—Pluto has tantalizing mysteries to unlock that New Horizons, the most recent spacecraft to visit the system, only added to. To research those ...

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space ...

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

Pluto and its moon Charon's meeting may be traced to a "kiss-and-capture" collision between the two. (CN) — The question of ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto ...

New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.