For comparison, our moon is just a quarter of ... "I'd really like to determine how the initial Pluto-Charon impact can influence whether and how Pluto and Charon develop oceans." ...

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

One of the mysteries in our solar system is why our moon is so large compared ... is dwarf planet Pluto, which itself is small at 2,250 kilometres across, but has a moon, Charon, that is half ...

A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has developed advanced models suggesting that Pluto and its moon Charon may have formed in a way similar to the Earth-Moon system. In ...

With a diameter of 1,212 kilometres (slightly more than half the diameter of Pluto), Charon is the 12th-largest natural satellite in the solar system. It is calculated to be composed of 55 per cent ...

According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...

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 ...

The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, challenge the widely accepted notion that Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did, with a ...

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 ...

Pluto might have hogged much of the spotlight historically, but the dwarf planet is actually part of a double act, alongside its biggest satellite, Charon. A new analysis suggests that Pluto used ...

Berlin-based world sales company Pluto Film, led by Daniela and Benjamin Cölle, is marking its 10th anniversary with a shift into production as it readies its European Film Market slate.