Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

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Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...

Rhoden and Denton both began working through the NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Program in September, but Rhoden was not part of the Pluto study. Some scientists suspect an ocean could lie beneath ...

There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its ...

Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative to its parent planet in our solar system,” NASA notes. So how did Pluto get its chonky companion? A new study ...

Pluto can be thought of as being part of a binary system with its biggest satellite, Charon (pictured). Scientists have long thought that this system formed as the result of a collision between ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large ...

Styx is also the name for one of the smaller moons in the Pluto system, and the others (Nix, Kerberos and Hydra) also have connections to the underworld mythology. According to NASA, Christy also ...