NASA’s New Horizons mission visited Pluto in 2015, giving us an unprecedented close-up view of the planet and its moons. “The New Horizons images and data surprised scientists by showing both ...

which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto ... At about 750 miles wide, it's half the size of Pluto — extremely large for a moon. In previous models, Charon formed in a similar fashion ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Because Earth and the Moon are warmer and more gooey ... orbital properties of the two bodies perfectly. New Horizons image of Pluto (right) and Charon (left). (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) "The compelling ...

Whereas a moon usually orbits a planet ... Astronomers have been plotting a return of New Horizons to Pluto, with a potential new mission called Persephone. You can see NASA's concept for the ...

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

Nitrogen is heated and cooled as Pluto rotates. A New Horizons image of Pluto and its moon Charon revealed more surprises about the dwarf planet and its orbiting moon. Click on the hand to see why ...

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.

Artistic representation of the huge and slow impact on Pluto that led to the heart-shaped Sputnik ... [+] Planitia structure on its surface. Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever ...

Here’s how it works. New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf ...