New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

This year also marks the 10th anniversary of Pluto's first dedicated flyby mission. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zoomed by the small world and its moons, providing the first high-resolution ...

Pluto, the International Space Station, and a number of icy moons that orbit the outer planets like Saturn (as seen by the Cassini spacecraft, which just reached the end of its mission at the ...

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