"We've just accomplished the most distant flyby." This first radio message ... and 1.5 billion km beyond even the dwarf planet Pluto which New Horizons visited in 2015. It's estimated there ...

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

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...

Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...

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 ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

The team led by Denton created simulations of the impact using high-performance computing clusters. This revealed that Pluto ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing collision.

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

When a user navigates to either of the channels, it says it is "no longer available on Pluto TV." While not confirmed, the removal of the channels is likely tied to the new year and expiring ...

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NASA said scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day. The update showed ...