Charon is the largest moon of Pluto. It’s also one of the most significant objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of the solar system beyond Neptune, filled with icy bodies.

Charon, Pluto's largest moon, has become the focal point of a major discovery. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have identified the presence of carbon dioxide on its surface.

Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

Scientists recently detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The researchers conducted the survey using the James Webb ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in 1978 when scientists noticed Pluto appeared to elongate every ...

They also used the densities of large KBOs such as Pluto and its moon Charon, as determined by NASA’s New Horizons mission.

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope provide scientists with a more complete understanding of the composition and evolution of Charon, Pluto's largest moon orbiting any of the dwarf ...

and its moons are in the far fringes of our solar system in a zone known as the Kuiper Belt. Besides water ice, ammonia and organic materials were previously detected on Charon. Both Pluto and ...

Charon, Pluto's largest moon, has become the focal point of a major discovery. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have identified the presence of carbon dioxide on its surface. This ...