This once-in-a-generation shift is a pivotal power play in a saga that will unfold in the years and decades to come.

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

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

It was not until 1994 that the Hubble Space Telescope produced ... New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and Charon in 2015 and is still exploring the outer solar system.

When Pluto and Charon hit, they may have stuck together, rotating through space as one unit until they ... "This process might have operated all over the outer solar system early in its history." ...

In the wake of this colossal impact, the colliding bodies behaved like fluids, with the moon forming out of the molten debris which had been ejected into space. "Pluto and Charon are different ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

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 ...

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

“The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space,” he ... further away than Pluto and the most distant ...