This composite of enhanced color images that NASA’s New Horizons mission took when it flew near Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left) on July 14, 2015. While Pluto and Charon’s true separation ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) New research suggests that billions of years ago, ...

"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and evolution of Pluto's moon Charon, the largest moon orbiting ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and evolution of Pluto’s moon Charon, the largest moon orbiting any of our solar ...

For the same reason a glass bottle filled with water shatters when left to freeze, ice may have split Pluto's moon Charon wide open. Ice expands when it freezes. This simple fact of physics has ...

What secrets can Pluto’s moon, Charon, reveal about the formation and evolution of planetary bodies throughout the solar system? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists believe ...

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was ...