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 ...
Finally, a family portrait of Pluto is beginning to emerge! For the first time ever, astronomers have captured two never-before-photographed moons orbiting Pluto. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...
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 ...