Pluto's small moons are starting to come out into the light. The most jaw-dropping photos captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic July flyby of Pluto depict the dwarf planet or ...
The names Nix and Hydra have been approved for the two small satellites of Pluto discovered in May 2005. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for ...
Images of Pluto's most recently discovered moons, Styx and Kerberos, are expected to be transmitted to Earth no later than mid-October. The New Horizons team will have another press conference this ...
The formation of Pluto’s small satellites – Styx, Nix, Keberos and Hydra – remains a mystery. Their orbits are nearly circular and are near mean-motion resonances and nearly coplanar with Charon’s ...
When New Horizons flew past Pluto and its moon Charon in 2015, it took a lot of pictures. From studying those images, scientists have recently realized that while both bodies are covered in craters, ...
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