[Photos: Pluto and its 5 Moons] Next stop: Pluto New Horizons is currently about 1,000 days away and 730 million miles from closest approach to Pluto. Since the spacecraft blasted off in 2006 ...

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Pluto's moon Charon. Image: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI NASA scientists working with the New Horizons mission, which flew by Pluto in July 2015, have been informally naming different features on Pluto and ...

AP LOS ANGELES — Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion. Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of the smallest moon yet around the icy ...

[Photos: Pluto and its 5 Moons] Dusty mystery The potential moons, which would each measure just 0.6 miles to 1.8 miles (1 to 3 kilometers) across, arose in a simulation looking at how Pluto's ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...

By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago ... a grand do-si-do that resulted in Pluto and its quintet of moons orbiting the sun together today. Astronomers have long wondered how ...

[Photos: Pluto and its 5 Moons] Next stop: Pluto New Horizons is currently about 1,000 days away and 730 million miles (1,180 million kilometers) from closest approach to Pluto. Since the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion. Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of the smallest moon yet around the ...

The New Horizons team hasn't yet informally named craters on Pluto's small moon Nix, for example ... as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all ...

LOS ANGELES — Pluto may have been kicked out of the planet club, but it has gained yet another companion. Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of the smallest moon yet around the icy orb ...