Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...

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

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and ...

This "kiss-and-capture" event offers a new understanding of how moons are captured and helps scientists learn more about how ...

Full Moons have been romantic, beautiful, and mysterious since the beginning of time. Full Moons are known as times of ...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...