This time, the space agency posted a picture of planetary besties- Charon and Pluto. After they posted about this double dwarf planet, it went viral. "Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons – ...

Scientists are hoping to use the craters dotting Pluto’s and Charon’s surfaces to take a survey of the Kuiper belt population and reconstruct how it has changed over time. Although tricky to ...

Nine Years Later It Become A WorldBy Jamie Carter Pluto, 40 times farther from the sun than the Earth and in an orbital dance with its slightly smaller moon Charon, was demoted to dwarf planet ...

on Pluto and its largest moon Charon, than anyone had suspected. The logic behind the IAU decision came under intense ...

But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological features. There was more, on Pluto itself, that recalled the American mid-west. Dark streaks on Pluto's plains ...

T he asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...

ABSTRACT Near‐infrared (0.8–2.5 μm) spectrophotometry, acquired on 2002 July 18.25, is presented for the Pluto‐Charon system. The sub‐Earth longitude and latitude of Pluto at the time of the ...

and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Pluto and its moon Charon. The colors here are not true colors. They're exaggerated to highlight the differences in Pluto's and ...

Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...

Pluto's has moons, but they are unlike others in the solar system. The largest, Charon, is about half Pluto's size and doesn't orbit Pluto as much as the two orbit each other. Pluto, Ceres ...

mapping global tectonism on Pluto and Charon, which will inform numerical modeling to determine the structural evolution of these bodies; mapping large impact features on the Galilean moons Ganymede ...

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 ...