Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...

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

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.

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

In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...

A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems ...

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

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...