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.

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, as seen by New Horizons as it flew past in 2015. Its red cap of tholins is evident at the top of the picture.(Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied ...

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.

Unlike most moons, Charon is almost half the size of Pluto, so they actually orbit around a point in space between them, almost like they're twin planets.

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

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the size of the dwarf planet.

Pluto and Charon are somewhat of a celestial odd couple — Charon’s radius is just about half the size of Pluto, making it abnormally large for a moon — but researchers uncovered new observations about ...

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 ...

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.