Especially with the discovery of Pluto’s fifth moon in 2012, the distant icy planet and its largest moon Charon has gotten a lot of attention. You’ve undoubtedly heard Pluto referred to as the ...

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They’re a fascinating pair: Two icy worlds, spinning around their common center of gravity like a pair of figure skaters clasping hands. Scientists believe they were shaped by a cosmic collision ...

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 ...

They're a fascinating pair, Pluto and Charon, two icy worlds, spinning around a common center of gravity like a pair of figure skaters clasping hands. New images from NASA's New Horizons ...

Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, wears a red cap. Charon’s north pole has a dark red color, starkly different from its otherwise gray-white surface, and scientists have finally found out why. Using a ...