For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...

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

Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...

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

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

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

A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding light on the dwarf planet's mysterious past.

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

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

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.

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