After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

A hopper structure would enable those goals much better than a traditional rover at a relatively low weight cost since Pluto's gravity is so weak. Other objectives of the report include ...

"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 ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ...

This is how Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, originated, according to a University of Arizona study that challenges decades of scientific assumptions. A study led by Adeene Denton, a NASA ...

Rover only offered the Defender's steelies in the 18-inch size because if they were any bigger they'd have the rotational inertia of Pluto. (And also because smaller wheels with more tire sidewall ...