This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions ...

Scientists have been blown away by Pluto’s complex geology in the months following NASA’s historic flyby of the dwarf planet. But it’s not the only interesting world in its system: Charon, Pluto’s ...

This composite of enhanced color images that NASA’s New Horizons mission took when it flew near Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left) on July 14, 2015. While Pluto and Charon’s true separation ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and evolution of Pluto’s moon Charon, the largest moon orbiting any of our solar ...

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 ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Pluto pulled Adeene Denton into its orbit during her undergraduate internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. It was summer 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the ...

Brad E Tucker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

For the same reason a glass bottle filled with water shatters when left to freeze, ice may have split Pluto's moon Charon wide open. Ice expands when it freezes. This simple fact of physics has ...

Images of Pluto’s tiny moon Kerberos taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and just sent back to Earth this week complete the family portrait of Pluto’s moons. Kerberos Revealed. This image of ...