Using NASA New Horizons spacecraft data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists created this flyover movie.

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

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...

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 ...

Photograph by NASA 2006New Horizons blasts off from Cape ... Scientists are hoping to use the craters dotting Pluto’s and Charon’s surfaces to take a survey of the Kuiper belt population ...

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New ... than the Earth and in an orbital dance with its slightly smaller moon Charon, was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006 by astronomers—not ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

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 ...

NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto's moon Charon, showing the crack on the icy moon. It was taken just before closest approach on July 14, 2015.

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...

That was until NASA's 'New Horizons' probe arrived in 2015 ... a six-mile deep canyon at the edge of the Solar System. But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of ...

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 ...