NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it hurtled past at nearly 50,000 kilometres an hour. I was lucky enough to witness ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which ...

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.