In a paper published today in Nature, a team of U.S. scientists led by Dr. S. Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), concludes that two newly discovered small moons of Pluto were very ...

Five 10-second exposures made were added together to make the image in the left panel. The middle image was extensively processed to reduce the bright glare of Pluto and Charon and largely remove the ...

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 ...

Though technically not a planet, it has as rich geology as any of its planetary siblings in the solar system Shi En Kim - Reporter A color-enhanced photo of Pluto that was captured by the New Horizons ...