Charon is the largest moon of Pluto. It’s also one of the most significant objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of the solar system beyond Neptune, filled with icy bodies. Measuring about half ...

At 1,204 kilometres across, Charon is roughly half the size of Pluto. Observations from New Horizons show Pluto to have a diameter of 2,370 kilometres — finally nailing down a figure that had ...

The two best explored, large worlds of the outer Solar System, Pluto and Charon, couldn't be more different. Thanks to New Horizons, we may finally know why.

This measurement revealed that Pluto is colder than expected and chillier than Charon. The SMA data found Pluto’s ice-covered surface is –382° Fahrenheit (43 kelvins), while Charon measured ...

Bad Astronomy Pluto and Charon Keep Getting WEIRDER. By Phil Plait July 17, 2015 2:50 PM ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.

N ew research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy ...

Pluto — the once (and to some people, forever) ninth planet of the solar system — gets a lot of love from the general public. When Pluto's official status in the solar system was changed from ...

Charon also has an abnormally circular orbit of Pluto, with its orbital eccentricity (a value between 0 and 1, where 0 is a perfect circle and 1 is an open-ended parabola) only being about 0.000161.