An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy ...

By the late 1980s, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft had swept through the realm of the giant planets and revealed the real mass of ... the craters dotting Pluto’s and Charon’s surfaces to take ...

An curved arrow pointing right. See what's so weird about Pluto and its moons. Produced by Emmanuel Ocbazghi. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science ...

But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon ... ocean or radioactive elements beneath Pluto's surface. This would be a real turn-up for the books as, until now, astronomers thought Pluto was too old ...

Pluto and Charon formed from a “kiss and capture” collision, a new study from the University of Arizona reveals, rewriting theories of planetary formation. Unlike catastrophic impacts ...

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite, Charon, which hovers around Pluto.

Pluto's secrets are being unraveled! Astronomers have found convincing evidence of a massive ocean of liquid water hidden beneath the dwarf planet's icy surface. This exciting discovery, published ...