Charon survived a violent origin story that should have destroyed it. Its tidal lock with Pluto, frozen internal ocean, ...

The latest high-resolution images of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, have revealed a world that appears on the verge of splitting in two. It had been predicted that Charon would be an unremarkable, ...

The first closeup image of Charon's surface has revealed a strange mountain that appears to be encircled in a (dry) moat. In the image, which focuses on an area approximately 240 miles from top to ...

At half the diameter of Pluto, Charon is the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world; ...

For billions of years, Pluto and its largest moon Charon have been facing each other in a mutual tidal lock. Since it’s about half the size of Pluto, the moon and its planet are sometimes referred to ...

I've worn out "spectacular". "Awesome" got old long ago. What to say about these latest images of the Pluto's moon Charon returned by NASA's New Horizons? They tell a story. A story of a moon that ...

Slushy geysers on Pluto's moon Charon apparently coat the tiny world in ice crystals, making it something like the outer solar system's equivalent of an ice machine. A very, very slow ice machine.

NASA’s New Horizons mission has revealed that Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is full of surprises, including a strange feature that scientists are calling “a mountain in a moat.” You can see it in the ...