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

Timeslayers: From the Chronicles of The Charon transports readers to a vividly imagined steampunk world teetering on 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 ...

The icy volcanism of Charon may be caused by its internal ocean freezing, expanding, and cracking the outer shell of the moon if it was thinner than expected. The icy volcanism of Pluto's large ...

Pluto and its moon Charon possibly “kissed” billions of years ago, a new report shows. Elenarts – stock.adobe.com. The authors suggest that Pluto and Charon, located in the Kuiper Belt at ...

Charon, which is tidally locked in orbit with Pluto, has cracks, bruises and colorful spots that have intrigued scientists since New Horizons made its flyby of the system on July 14, 2015.

New Horizons photo shows moon's "colorful and violent history." NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon ...

They found that Charon's atmosphere is inactive for centuries as Pluto and its five moons laboriously continue on their long orbit around the sun. During this time, Charon's surface temperatures ...

Charon most likely formed when an impact on Pluto blew some or most of its crust into space, which went into orbit and coalesced to form Charon (and perhaps the smaller moons, too).

This close-up of canyons on Charon was taken by NASA’s New Horizons probe during its flyby last July. The color-coded picture shows elevation data. Serenity Chasma’s depth can exceed 4 miles ...

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