Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

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.

The new theory suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto and Charon collided in the far reaches of the outer solar system ... a binary,” Denton explains to Space.com’s Robert Lea.

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

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large ... The impact sent molten debris from Earth flying into space, which eventually came together in orbit ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn't stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...