Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...
Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...
Pluto and its moon Charon's meeting may be traced to a "kiss-and-capture" collision between the two. (CN) — The question of ...
Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...
New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.
As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...
Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...
In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...
The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...
Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.
The outer worlds, such as Pluto, are too remote to presently consider ... reaching closer than any spacecraft before to unlock its secrets. Now it is about to perform its final, closest passes ...