Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory suggests a novel “kiss and capture” event, where the two celestial bodies ...

New Horizons already has sent historic images of the former planet itself and its nearby moon Charon, and the recently demoted ex-planet has not disappointed. There do not appear to be any homegrown ...

The study, carried out by Mark R. Showalter of the SETI Institute and Doug Hamilton based at the University of Maryland, reveals that at least two of Pluto’s moons do not have an orderly rotation on ...

NASA's New Horizon Probe has gotten its closest ever look at two small moons orbiting Pluto. Coming on the 85th birthday of the discovery of Pluto, NASA Wednesday released two long-exposure images ...

Pluto’s companion, Charon, is almost too large to be a moon (Image: Keck Telescope) Pluto is an alien world in almost all respects, but in one way it resembles Earth: it has a large, close companion.

MOUNTAIN VIEW – Eight months after its encounter with the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto continues to surprise the scientists who study this distant world. Pluto and its largest moon Charon comprise ...

(Los Angeles-AP) June 21, 2006 - The newest kids in the solar system now have proper names: Nix and Hydra. The pair of moons orbiting Pluto were officially christened last week by the International ...

NEW spectroscopic observations, published this week in Science (vol 194, p 835) by three astronomers at the University of Hawaii, reveal that Pluto may be much smaller and lighter than hitherto ...