Scientists have uncovered a new theory to explain how Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, formed their unique relationship. Citing a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, the New York Times ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

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“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

Nitrogen is heated and cooled as Pluto rotates. A New Horizons image of Pluto and its moon Charon revealed more surprises about the dwarf planet and its orbiting moon. Click on the hand to see why ...

PhotoPhoto of Pluto and its moon Charon, as seen with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. In the same part constellation, Orion, as Betelgeuse but even farther away is the Orion Nebula ...

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