Additionally, Charon is the only mid-sized TNO for which geologic mapping is available. This is thanks to data gathered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which visited the Pluto system around a ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

The rock tour has officially been canceled. After two months of observations, NASA scientists have officially declared Earth safe from “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4. On Tuesday, the space ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will ... the Webb telescope discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Balmer hopes to use Webb ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest ... But the team discovered that a Pluto moon that we already knew about - Charon - has a very dark pole. Amanda Zangari, a post-doc researcher ...

That was until NASA's 'New Horizons' probe arrived in 2015 ... a six-mile deep canyon at the edge of the Solar System. But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of ...

NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.