Johns Hopkins APL researchers are contributing to the development of a mobile cellular system that can be installed in a ...

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Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

APL staff members filed a record 564 intellectual property disclosures in fiscal year 2024, reinforcing the Laboratory’s ...

New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic collision.

The hunt for life on Mars is driven by more than curiosity – it seeks to understand humanity's place in the universe.

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

This "kiss-and-capture" event offers a new understanding of how moons are captured and helps scientists learn more about how ...

Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...