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.

Founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin is counting down toward a 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) launch on Friday of its ...

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday night announced that the docking of two SpaDeX satellites for ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

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 ...

The search for planets beyond our solar system has taken an exciting leap forward, thanks to advancements in space missions ...

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.

Pluto and its moon Charon's meeting may be traced to a "kiss-and-capture" collision between the two. (CN) — The question of ...