A team from the University of Arizona has made a startling new discovery about the formation of Pluto and its moon. Published ...

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

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead of a typical planet-moon setup, Pluto and Charon became a binary system.

An SwRI-led team detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide spectral signatures on Pluto’s largest moon Charon using Webb telescope observations (white), which extend the wavelength coverage ...

In June 2016, NASA released a new photo of Charon, one of Pluto's moons, which shows a deep crack that is actually longer and deeper than the Grand Canyon. Produced by Arielle Berger. Original ...