In the wake of this colossal impact, the colliding bodies behaved like fluids, with the moon forming out of the molten debris which had been ejected into space. "Pluto and Charon are different ...

Pluto can indeed capture Charon from a giant impact," team leader and University of Arizona lunar and planetary researcher Adeene Denton told Space.com. "The process of this collisional capture is ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

Pluto shifted into the professionally weird, utopian-leaning space cowboy climes of Aquarius in November of 2024, where the dark lord shall reign until 2044. This once-in-a-generation shift is a ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Whereas a moon usually orbits a planet, both Pluto and Charon orbit a point in space between them — their common center of mass. The other four moons in the system — Styx, Nix, Kerberos and ...

The "Star Trek" legend's only son will discuss his memoir at the annual space-themed event.

Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Pluto can indeed capture Charon from a giant impact," team leader and University of Arizona lunar and planetary researcher Adeene Denton told Space.com. "The process of this collisional capture is ...