An SwRI-led team detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide spectral signatures on Pluto’s largest moon Charon using Webb telescope observations (white), which extend the wavelength coverage ...

Since its discovery in 1978, Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has been studied closely. However, scientists have been unable to ...

For decades, scientists believed Charon formed through a massive ... The collision also shaped the distinctive features observed on Pluto’s surface. Geologic formations such as Sputnik Planitia ...

If you stood on Pluto's surface ... at the edge of the Solar System. But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological features. There was more, on Pluto itself ...