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

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 ...

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— -- Pluto's moon Charon may be the "Hulk" of the solar system. New images from NASA's New Horizons show evidence the moon may have aggressively expanded and fractured its outer layer, pushed ...

Only a year after Hubble Space Telescope scientists discovered Pluto's still unnamed fourth moon, they've found a fifth. Even in the Hubble's best images, the new moon—some 3.7 billion miles (5. ...

The tiny new moon, called P4 for now, brings the number of known Pluto satellites to four. And the find suggests that NASA's New Horizons probe could make some big discoveries of its own when it ...

Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. A new study has proposed that Pluto captured Charon via a 'kiss'—rather than a catastrophic collision like the one that formed Earth's moon.

In these two images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Pluto's new moon, P4, can be seen to move around the dwarf planet. NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) Pluto has a ...

New 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 ...

The new moon in Aries 2021 brings fresh-start energy, but thanks to Pluto, it may also bring uncomfortable (but productive!) changes. Lifestyle Published Apr 11, 2021 ...

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