Pluto's largest moon, Charon. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute) Labroots recently explored Saturn’s sponge-like moon, Hyperion, with its ...

How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss' We could float effortlessly in Pluto's subsurface ocean. Pluto's heart-shaped scar may offer clues to the frozen world's history.

They found that Charon's atmosphere is inactive for centuries as Pluto and its five moons laboriously continue on their long orbit around the sun. During this time, Charon's surface temperatures ...

Scientists have noticed something strange about Pluto and its big moon, Charon, and it's making them rethink a lot! Unlike most moons, Charon is almost half the size of Pluto, so they actually ...

Charon, its biggest of five moons, was discovered in 1978 by the U.S. Naval Observatory. At about 750 miles wide, it's half the size of Pluto — extremely large for a moon.

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

New models explain canyons on Pluto moon Internal ocean freeze modeling does not support cryovolcanism on Charon Date: February 7, 2023 Source: Southwest Research Institute ...

Pluto and its moon Charon's meet-cute may be traced to a "kiss-and-capture" collision between the two. Monique Merrill / January 6, 2025. Link copied. A full view of Pluto's crescent, captured by NASA ...

There are indications that Charon's south pole (which was not in view of New Horizons) has a similar feature, and the other smaller moons of Pluto, like Nix, seem to have red spots as well.

Charon, its biggest of five moons, was discovered in 1978 by the U.S. Naval Observatory. At about 750 miles wide, it's half the size of Pluto — extremely large for a moon.