Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Related: Charon: Pluto's Largest Moon. Team member and SwRI researcher Alyssa Rhoden is an expert in the geophysics of icy satellites, especially ones that host their own oceans.

N ew research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

For the study, the researchers used U of A’s advanced computer models to simulate potential scenarios that could explain how Charon formed, as scientists have long hypothesized it formed how the Earth ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is ...