Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11: We can spin our wheels or feel forgetful as that busy, peripatetic, talkative Gemini moon squares ...
Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...
Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
Scientists propose Pluto and its moon Charon formed through a "kiss and capture" event 4.5 billion years ago, challenging ...
“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...
For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...
Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...
Nikon's collaboration with NASA will send its modified, thermal-equipped Z9 camera to the moon for the Artemis III mission.
Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.
They needed some space. 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 ...
Familiar programming will ring in the New Year at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium during January.