It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

Pluto, the dwarf planet that was once considered the ninth planet, has a growing entourage of satellites. The tiny world has five moons of varying size in orbit around it that tumble and dance in ...

Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet.

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them ...

Come July, stargazers can enjoy a spectacular celestial showcase featuring star clusters, meteor showers, and planetary ...

New research suggests Pluto may have had a "kiss" with its largest moon billions of years ago in an uncanny, harmless collision.

NASA scientists working with the New Horizons mission, which flew by Pluto in July 2015, have been informally naming different features on Pluto and its moons for a while in order to easily refer ...

Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic collision and the potential for oceans in the outer solar system.

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing collision ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...