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

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

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

Charon, the largest and most well-studied of Pluto's five moons, was first visited in 2015 as part of the groundbreaking New ...

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

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

seeding the binary system with space rubble that could make New Horizons’ visit more than a little treacherous. Three illustrations show what Pluto's surface might look like. The top image shows ...

The flyby of New Horizons nine years later revealed Pluto to be geologically active ... organic compounds on its surface and faults in its crust, the latter suggesting plate tectonics.

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 ...

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

12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data ... on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon ...

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 ...