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 ...

Both rotate once every 6.4 Earth days. Charon is about half Pluto’s size, while Nix and Hydra, in orbit around Pluto and Charon and between 24,000 and 37,000 miles away, are 10 to 20 percent the ...

Small, cold, and absurdly far away, Pluto has always been ... boring path around the sun. There never was another large planet tugging at its orbit. But if not for the faulty math, and one man ...

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Pluto and Charon orbit a shared center of mass, much like figure skaters spinning together, a result of their unique collision process. The collision deposited internal heat into both bodies ...

An curved arrow pointing right. See what's so weird about Pluto and its moons. Produced by Emmanuel Ocbazghi. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science ...

Singer wrote on Reddit. 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 on the New Horizons team ...

Pluto shares its orbit with other objects in the Kuiper Belt and is not gravitationally dominant, meaning it does not "clear the neighborhood" around its orbit. Because of this, the IAU ...

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite, Charon, which hovers around Pluto.