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

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The disco ball is sparkling and ready to drop ... Big shifts are coming to the planets: Neptune, Pluto, and Uranus will move signs, putting new emphasis on the elements of air and fire, which ...

Editor’s Note (12/27/24): Mission controllers for NASA’s Parker Solar ... Pluto, are too remote to presently consider for anything but robotic exploration. And the sun, our bright burning ball ...

The crystal ball is looking bleak ... Ceasefire Between Russia and Ukraine Pluto, our petite but potent planet of death, destruction, and regeneration, has recently moved from the centralized ...

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.

Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size of the main body, unlike other moons in the solar system. The scenario also could support Pluto's active geology and possible ...

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

Scientists have thought that this system arose in a way similar to the Earth and Moon, with a massive impactor striking the young Pluto in the Solar System’s ancient past, thereby casting off a ...

Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...