Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory suggests a novel “kiss and capture” event, where the two celestial bodies ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest ...

If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons Nix or Hydra, you’d have a hard time setting your alarm clock. That’s because you could not know for sure when, or even in which direction, the sun would rise. A ...

Why are there moons at the edge of the solar system that cause their rotation axes to fluctuate as if ignoring the laws of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Pluto has five moons, but Charon stands out from the rest. Charon is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in ...

In the Feb. 23 issue of the journal Nature, a team led by Dr. Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., describes its discovery of two new moons ...

Image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto.NASA / ESA Back in the 1980’s, a now-defunct magazine called Science Digest held a contest ...

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. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago, ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists believe ...