It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

the lead author and a NASA postdoctoral fellow University of Arizona. The study suggests that the existing model for the ...

Photograph by NASA 2006New Horizons blasts off from Cape ... or cryovolcanoes on Pluto and Charon. Some team members even think Charon might steal the show from its sibling.

That was until NASA's 'New Horizons' probe arrived in ... a six-mile deep canyon at the edge of the Solar System. But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological ...

NASA said. After a trip of eight to 12 years, the Pluto-Kuiper Express would study and map Pluto and Charon, then fly by the Kuiper Disc, a recently discovered ring of "ice dwarfs" or minor ...

The probe was 46,091 miles (74,176 kilometers) from Charon when this image was taken. Flyby New Horizons Pluto Solar System Spacecraft Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made ... But the team discovered that a Pluto moon that we already knew about - Charon - has a very dark pole. Amanda Zangari, a post-doc researcher on the New ...

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No longer a planet but not forgotten, Pluto’s colors, captured by NASA almost 10 years ago, continue to dazzle among the collection of colorful celestial objects only seen in the solar system.

Fortunately, NASA asked New Horizons to beam some "first look" photos Wednesday morning and afternoon. So today at 3 p.m. ET we get to see the best-ever views of Pluto and its moons Charon ...