Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Pluto has five moons, but Charon stands out from the rest. Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative ...

Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions ... That made all the difference, Denton said. The simulation showed that Pluto and its impactor didn't merge, lose a lot of material ...

Here’s how it works. Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon is really a misnomer; Pluto and Charon actually form a binary system. Whereas a moon usually ...

Pluto, our planet of profound change and ultimate reckoning, has set up shop in Aquarius, and the energy of the dwarf daddy of death’s transit will have a weighty effect on all of us.

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a ... but since they're all different in their compositions and mass, it's critical to learn how kiss-and-capture ...

Pluto, a dwarf planet, and its moons are in the far fringes of our solar ... The AP is solely responsible for all content.

The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, challenge the widely accepted notion that Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did, with a ...

A new theory about Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, could alter how planetary systems are taught in U.S. schools. Scientists suggest that 4.5 billion years ago, Pluto and Charon experienced a "kiss ...