Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...

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.

They needed some space. New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature ...

What better way to spend a cold winter night than indulging in some hot soup and even hotter music. If this is your idea of a ...

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The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

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

The process that left Pluto and its largest moon orbiting each other at a close distance may have been a lot gentler than ...

Lunar samples collected by NASA astronauts during the Apollo Moon landings have a curious habit of being destroyed, stolen, ...

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic collision.

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 conjoined ...