Debate has raged for two decades over whether Pluto should be considered a planet. Some want President Trump to take action ...

New research suggests that Pluto may have acquired its most massive moon, Charon, through an ancient grazing impact, which the science team refers to as a “kiss and capture”. The study uses computer ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

Just two months ago, Paramount-owned Pluto TV added dedicated channel for science fiction smash hit The X Files, thrilling science fiction fans everywhere. Now, the streaming platform is adding ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature Geoscience,” describes how the minuscule dwarf ...

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 ...

(MEDIA GENERAL) – As NASA spacecraft New Horizons continues its way through space, scientists and science enthusiasts have taken to social media to express their feelings on Tuesday’s historic Pluto ...

As New Horizons passed Pluto in July 2015, did the dwarf planet alter the probe's trajectory? Douglas Kaupa Council Bluffs, Iowa Pluto did in fact both bend and accelerate the trajectory of New ...

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, ...