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The “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been ...

It took a journey of more than nine years and three billion miles (~five billion km), but New Horizons made it all the way to Pluto, and gave us our first up-close look at our Solar System's outermost ...

JWST detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Charon's surface. Hydrogen peroxide suggests ongoing chemical reactions on Charon. Charon's carbon dioxide likely came from below its surface.

Admit it: You were a little envious of New Horizons when it flew through the Pluto system in July. (Probably less so regarding the nine preceding years of isolated hurtling.) Lucky for you, NASA keeps ...

The latest high-resolution images of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, have revealed a world that appears on the verge of splitting in two. It had been predicted that Charon would be an unremarkable, ...

After hours of tense waiting, NASA finally released the first images its New Horizons spacecraft took during its historic flyby of Pluto and its moons. That full collection of images will trickle in ...

The “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been discussing how the binary system—in which each mutually orbits the other—came ...