The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) New research suggests that billions of years ago, ...

Pluto may be small, but it has one of the most unusual moons in the solar system. Charon is so big compared to Pluto that the ...

A full view of Pluto's crescent, captured by NASA's New Horizons team on July 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun. (NASA) (CN) — The question of how Pluto captured its moon ...

Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

The “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been discussing how the binary system—in which each mutually orbits the other—came ...

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was ...

LOS ANGELES - Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion. Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of the smallest moon yet around the icy orb, ...

This morning at 9:00 am PT, the SETI Institute will announce the new names of Pluto’s smallest known moons. “Vulcan” and “Cerberus” were the public’s choices earlier this year, following a ...

Pluto landed its largest moon, Charon, with a 'kiss'—overturning decades of scientific assumptions about how planetary bodies form and evolve. This is the conclusion of a new study, conducted at the ...

New information about Pluto's largest moon that was revealed by a NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) telescope was shared publicly this week. The journal Nature Communications on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tiny fourth moon orbiting the distant icy dwarf planet Pluto, NASA said on Wednesday. The space telescope was searching for rings ...