Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Scientists propose Pluto and its moon Charon formed through a “kiss and capture” event 4.5 billion years ago, challenging previous theories about their unique size ratio and orbital relationship.

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on 34 felony counts in the Stormy Daniels hush money case on Friday ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...

A new theory about Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, could alter how planetary systems are taught in U.S. schools. Scientists ...

California battles devastating wildfires, claiming lives, destroying homes, and displacing thousands. Strong Santa Ana winds and dry conditions fuel the blazes, with federal support mobilized for ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...

Pluto and Charon created a binary system, rewriting planetary formation theories and hinting at hidden subsurface oceans.

Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...