Washington: NASA's New Horizons probe has settled one of the most basic questions about Pluto - its size. Mission scientists have found Pluto to be 2,370 kms in diameter, somewhat larger than many ...
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters and tidal forces allowed Charon to lose energy and become permanently bound ...
A new study provides the best estimate to date of the diameter and heft of Pluto’s moon Charon and suggests that the satellite likely has no atmosphere. Charon is the largest known moon in relation to ...