Admit it: You were a little envious of New Horizons when it flew through the Pluto system in July. (Probably less so regarding the nine preceding years of isolated hurtling.) Lucky for you, NASA keeps ...

The latest high-resolution images of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, have revealed a world that appears on the verge of splitting in two. It had been predicted that Charon would be an unremarkable, ...

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It took a journey of more than nine years and three billion miles (~five billion km), but New Horizons made it all the way to Pluto, and gave us our first up-close look at our Solar System's outermost ...

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. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago, ...

They're a fascinating pair, Pluto and Charon, two icy worlds, spinning around a common center of gravity like a pair of figure skaters clasping hands. New images from NASA's New Horizons ...

Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, wears a red cap. Charon’s north pole has a dark red color, starkly different from its otherwise gray-white surface, and scientists have finally found out why. Using a ...

Pluto’s moon Charon looks dark, foreboding, and dry in pictures taken by the New Horizons spacecraft last summer. A brownish feature near its pole appeared so ominous that scientists actually named it ...