Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...
A dispute over the names of two new moons of Pluto is highlighting a broader battle over who names what in our solar system and beyond. On one side is the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a ...
The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first ...
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How Pluto captured a moon almost its own size
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, has become central to research on how small worlds form and evolve in the outer Solar System. The pair orbits a shared centre of mass that lies outside Pluto’s surface, a ...
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NASA's stunning discovery on Pluto's largest moon
New observations from NASA have revealed unexpected features on Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. The data suggests complex ...
The New Horizons mission to Pluto isn’t rewriting the textbooks, says NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown. “It is writing the textbooks,” he said, as he closed a Friday press briefing with mission scientists.
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