NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Charon is made mostly of water ice. When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it imaged only one side of Charon. It found that Charon's north polar region, called Mordor ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...