Admit it: You were a little envious of New Horizons when it flew through the Pluto system in July. (Probably less so regarding the nine preceding years of isolated hurtling.) Lucky for you, NASA keeps ...

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, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the size ...

It took a journey of more than nine years and three billion miles (~five billion km), but New Horizons made it all the way to Pluto, and gave us our first up-close look at our Solar System's outermost ...

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; ...

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 in some ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago, ...

Charon was O.K., but he refused to play Beyoncé and would make low, guttural Gregorian-chant sounds when I asked him to turn up the A.C. Great service, but I’m knocking off a star because the Taxi TV ...

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