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 ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their ...

According to NASA, Christy also chose the name Charon became the first four letters were the same as his wife's Charlene. Charon is made mostly of water ice. When the New Horizons spacecraft flew ...

Additionally, Charon is the only mid-sized TNO for which geologic mapping is available. This is thanks to data gathered by ...

New Horizons image of Pluto (right) and Charon (left). (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) "The compelling thing about this study is that the model parameters that work to capture Charon, end up putting it in the ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto ... astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.” Scientists think ...

A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.

Pluto seemed hopelessly cold and distant until 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons space probe ... long-term relationship with its largest moon, Charon. It started with a collision — one that ...

But what a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Southwestern Research Institute found was something quite different — a so-called "kiss-and-capture" scenario. When Pluto and Charon hit, they may have ...

The full moon will be at peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET Monday but will appear full into Wednesday morning, according to NASA. Viewers in most of the continental United States, eastern Canada ...