A NASA spacecraft bound for Pluto has captured its first photo of the dwarf planet's largest moon Charon, a cosmic snapshot snapped from nearly 550 million miles away. The new Charon photo was taken ...

Pluto, once our most distant planetary sibling in the solar system and now reclassified as one of many “dwarf” cousins, is set to get a lot less mysterious this summer. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft ...

Almost everyone enjoys a boat ride on a calm river. But in the realm of religion, there was one boat ride that no one wanted to take, but everyone was bound for. This was the cruise in pagan antiquity ...

As NASA's New Horizons probe closes in on Pluto, the Hubble Space telescope has been scouting its retinue of five known moons, discovering that at least two are tumbling chaotically in the complex ...

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This composite of enhanced color images that NASA’s New Horizons mission took when it flew near Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left) on July 14, 2015. While Pluto and Charon’s true separation ...

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 ...

Stunning images of Pluto's moon, Charon, were sent back by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s New Horizons spacecraft during its July mission. The closeup images were ...

Meet Serenity Chasma, a stunning rut on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. It’s part of a natural geological network four times as long and four-and-a-half times as deep as the Grand Canyon. The planet’s ...