Many planets have moons, and some planets have many moons - Saturn has more than 50. The Earth has just one moon - the Moon. Pluto is a dwarf planet. As the name suggests, a dwarf planet is ...

Our solar system contains a central star with eight planets, dwarf planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

Planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids and comets are being carefully examined and explored by means of highly sophisticated remote sensing and innovative in-situ missions to answer three ...

Here’s how it works. Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon is really a misnomer; Pluto and Charon actually form a binary system. Whereas a moon usually ...