Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Astronomers have long thought that Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, formed after a collision in the early solar system. New simulations of that encounter have found that ...

How about this to blow your mind: Pluto is two planets. Boom! Shots fired. Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is almost half ... to Kid Culture” and “What People are Getting Wrong this Week.” ...

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

Pluto was always in a tough spot when it came to being a planet. Just 1,477 miles across, it's only one-fifth the diameter of Earth. It did have five known moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and ...

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

How about this to blow your mind: Pluto is two planets. Boom! Shots fired. Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is almost half the size of Pluto. "I would consider Charon big enough to be a planet ...

He called this hypothetical world "Planet X." "In some ways, Pluto's more of a planet than some of the other established planets, like Mercury." ...

Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating and sometimes ...