Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory suggests a novel “kiss and capture” event, where the two celestial bodies ...

NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix.

Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If you have ever wanted a chance to make a name for yourself in astronomy, you now have an opportunity. Astronomers who were part of NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that Pluto's unusually large moon Charon formed through a process similar to Earth's moon—a massive collision followed by the stretching and deformation of fluid ...

William Shatner's had quite the colorful post-Star Trek career, a career that now includes not only being a spoken word poet but also naming one of Pluto's moons after Spock's home planet, Vulcan.