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 larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

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

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 ...

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.

The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in ...

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