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.

Full Moons have been romantic, beautiful, and mysterious since the beginning of time. Full Moons are known as times of ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid ...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...

The astrology for this week will reflect sensitive, dreamy, unfocused energy and yet it also stimulates a real pathway to our ...

Shortly after sunset, the southwestern horizon is playing host to the stunning planetary conjunction, offering skywatchers a ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...