When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) New research suggests that billions of years ago, ...

The icy volcanism of Pluto's large moon Charon and a belt of fractures across its surface may have been caused by a subsurface frozen ocean bursting through a thin ice shell. New models suggest that ...

JWST detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Charon's surface. Hydrogen peroxide suggests ongoing chemical reactions on Charon. Charon's carbon dioxide likely came from below its surface.

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. JHUAPL ...

At half the diameter of Pluto, Charon is the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world; ...

Pluto's Texas-size moon Charon is coming into sharper focus as NASA's New Horizons probe closes in for a dramatic flyby Tuesday, revealing apparent impact craters, huge chasms longer and deeper than ...

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The latest high-resolution images of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, have revealed a world that appears on the verge of splitting in two. It had been predicted that Charon would be an unremarkable, ...

Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, wears a red cap. Charon’s north pole has a dark red color, starkly different from its otherwise gray-white surface, and scientists have finally found out why. Using a ...