Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

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

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

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

Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn't stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto in 2014 and is currently travelling through a distant region called the Kuiper Belt. One answer to these legal questions is that human laws ought to ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto's ...

The team states that each flyby yields new data to understand the extreme energy and temperature ... Canceling this velocity demands more energy than propelling beyond the Kuiper Belt. This is why the ...