Pluto, a distant and fascinating dwarf planet, has revealed more of its secrets. Thanks to New Horizons, discover stunning ...

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, ...

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

Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...

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

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

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

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

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

Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever photos of Pluto ... High-resolution view of Pluto Sputnik Planitia, captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. “Pluto’s core is ...