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.

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.

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 ...

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The mosaics were created by running nearly 7,000 photos through software that matched up their colors with pointillistic picture elements from New Horizons' views of Pluto and Charon.

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.

Pluto has a mass of 1.3 x 10 22 kilograms and a diameter of 1,477 miles (2,377 kilometers), whereas Charon has a mass of 1.6 x 10 21 kg and a diameter of 753 miles . The two objects are only ...

Pluto and its moon Charon may have been briefly locked together in a cosmic “kiss”, before the dwarf planet released the smaller body and recaptured it in its orbit.

Pluto and its moon Charon may have been briefly locked together in a cosmic “kiss”, before the dwarf planet released the smaller body and recaptured it in its orbit.