The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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Panoramic view of the sun and orbiting planets in the solar system, zoom out of entire solar system from earth, rotate and pull lens. Some of the material is from NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

Most moons orbit their planets, but Pluto and Charon are different—they revolve around a point in space between them! 🔄 Why does this happen, and what did NASA’s New Horizons mission reveal about ...

Styx is also the name for one of the smaller moons in the Pluto system, and the others (Nix, Kerberos and Hydra) also have connections to the underworld mythology. According to NASA, Christy also ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

A new study has proposed that Pluto captured Charon via a 'kiss'—rather than a catastrophic collision like the one that formed Earth's moon. NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI In their study, Denton and ...

"Pluto and Charon are different – they're smaller, colder, and made primarily of rock and ice," said Adeene Denton, a NASA postdoctoral fellow who conducted the research at the U of A Lunar and ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" New ...