While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than the door hinge: Cardea. And now, thanks to Clay ...

NASA's Artemis program goal of establishing a human presence on Earth's moon is closer than ever to becoming a reality within ...

Do habitable exoplanets exist that possess life as we know it? Scientists have pondered this longstanding question ever since ...

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

In July 1969, four faculty members traveled from College Park to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide last-minute ...

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, ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a pair of lunar landers into space early Wednesday, sending Firefly Aerospace's ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...