Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...
Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour ‘kiss-and-capture’ encounter after a grazing ...
The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in ...
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.
Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...
As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto's ...
The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.
Christmas is here, and so are brand new images of some of the most beautiful holiday-inspired celestial views in the visible ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies offering crucial insights into the solar system’s formation.