Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

Instead, on June 24, 1978, the IAU approved the name suggested by Christy: Charon, the boatman who transported the souls of the dead into Hades, the realm of the dead in Greek religion and mythology.

There was "Bakunawa," in reference to a moon-eating, serpent-like dragon in Filipino mythology that's said to cause eclipses and earthquakes, and Ehaema, calling on a nocturnal spirit in Estonian ...

The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, challenge the widely accepted notion that Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did, with a ...

Christy suggested the name Charon after the mythological ferryman who carried souls across to the underworld. In Roman mythology, Pluto was the god of the underworld where the souls of the dead ...

They are akin to Charon, the ferryman of Greek mythology — only in reverse, carrying scholars back across the rivers they had once traversed to separate themselves from the rest of the working ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...

New models suggest Pluto and Charon formed from a giant impact, hinting at ongoing geological activity and hidden oceans on Pluto. This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and ...