Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Venture to the most distant worlds in our solar system as we chart the path to Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Learn about ...

Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...