In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Scientists recently detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The researchers conducted the survey using the James Webb ...

Scientists have noticed something strange about Pluto and its big moon, Charon, and it's making them rethink a lot! Unlike ...

The changing faces of Pluto| The predominant color of Pluto's surface is thought to result from ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking down methane on the planet's surface, leaving a dark ...

Scientists have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope. This marks the first discovery of ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

But there's something else odd out here. Another world close by. How did Charon and Pluto end up almost touching? Charon orbits about 12,000 miles from the surface of Pluto, which sounds like a ...

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in 1978 when scientists noticed Pluto appeared to elongate every ...