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Jessica Orwig
She's covered major science events including: The discovery of gravitational waves NASA's Pluto flyby The first image of a black hole India's successful Moon landing SpaceX's first Starship-Super ...
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OTD In Space – January 19: New Horizons Launched
NASA launched a spacecraft to Pluto! New Horizons is a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano, and it became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. It launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas FIVE ...
Arizona Daily Sun11d
Lowell Observatory to host annual I Heart Pluto Festival in February
Lowell Observatory will be hosting the 2025 I Heart Pluto Festival from Feb. 13 to 17, celebrating the planet and its ...
The New York Times21d
Two Private Moon Landers Have Launched at Once: What to Know
As a secondary payload on the Falcon 9, it will need to perform a flyby of the moon to get into ... and suspended additional liftoffs by Starship. Is Pluto a planet? And what is a planet, anyway?
The New York Times1d
Space and Astronomy
Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit ... Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers ...
Scientific American29d
Pluto May Have Won Its Moon Charon with a ‘Kiss’
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 planet (yeah, we wish Pluto ...
Science Daily29d
Pluto-Charon formation scenario mimics Earth-Moon system
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 fraction of the ...
CNN26d
Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. For decades ...
New York Post28d
Scientists stunned after learning Pluto and its biggest moon collided billions of years ago: ‘Raises a lot of interesting questions’
New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature Geoscience,” describes how the ...
Nature24d
Did Pluto ‘kiss and capture’ its largest moon?
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine28d
A Novel ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon, New Study Suggests
With Charon being half Pluto’s size, experts have struggled to explain how it ended up in the dwarf planet’s domain. Now, a team of researchers has suggested that Pluto may have secured Charon ...