Pluto gets jiggy with its biggest moon, Charon, in an amazing series of pictures just released by NASA's New Horizons mission. The time-lapse images from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager ...

WASHINGTON -- There's a chaotic dance going on at the far end of the solar system, involving Pluto and five of its closest friends, a new study finds. Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto, its ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon orbit their mutual center of gravity (marked with 'x') in this still from the first color animation of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured between May ...

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Some 4.5 billion years ago, the dwarf planet Pluto was suddenly joined by a companion. For a brief period – perhaps only hours – they danced as if arm in arm before gently separating, a grand do-si-do ...

In a new study, scientists have gathered all available NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data on the four outer moons of Pluto to analyse the system in more depth than ever before. The observations show ...

This image of Pluto (center) and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 28, 2015 (Jan. 29 GMT). A NASA spacecraft speeding toward an epic Pluto encounter this ...

Pluto and its largest satellite Charon are an odd pair. The relative size of the Charon means the two act as a double planet system, orbiting a center of gravity located between them in space. A study ...

Mischievous Pluto is again hurling mysteries at scientists. New observations based on years of Hubble Space Telescope data suggest that the dwarf planet’s four small known moons—Nix, Hydra, Kerberos ...

The first color "movies" of Pluto as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal the sheer strangeness of the orbital dance between the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. In a new animation ...