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

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

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

After speeding past Jupiter and Pluto in the ... to see the actual images the probe captures. Later on New Years Day NASA will broadcast the signal acquisition from New Horizons, confirming ...

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

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LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever ... from the Sun and 1 billion miles (about 1.6 billion km) ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 years, I received hundreds of suggestions. To the best of my knowledge, not ...

The RTG is the baseline power supply for New Horizons, launched in January 2006 on a journey to Pluto and its moon, Charon. It flew past Pluto in July 2015. NASA explores the unknown in air and space, ...

Nix and Hydra were discovered in 2005 as astronomers prepared for the launch of NASA’s New Horizons ... look at Pluto and Charon, but it turns out that in these 90-second images, you actually ...