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

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

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

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

Pluto is no longer classified as a planet, it’s a dwarf planet, however, it still has five moons. Now astronomers say they ...

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

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

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

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

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

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