Pluto, a distant and fascinating dwarf planet, has revealed more of its secrets. Thanks to New Horizons, discover stunning ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their current orbital ...

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Tthe dwarf planet Pluto (R) and Charon are shown July 11, 2015. (Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via Getty ... [+] Images) Researchers studying Pluto and Charon have long drawn a parallel to how Earth ...

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

Whereas a moon usually orbits a planet, both Pluto and Charon orbit ... that the Hubble Space Telescope produced the first image of both Pluto and Charon with clear space between them.

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.