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. Now, new research suggests that Pluto and Charon ...
Months after the historic 2015 Pluto flyby made by the spacecraft New Horizons this past summer, scientists at NASA are piecing together geographical maps to suss out the dwarf planet's terrain — and ...
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