Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

and Charon (background), comprising images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, shows the striking color differences of the two bodies. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Astronomers have long thought ...

Charon was the boatman who ferried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Acheron from the land of the living to the Underworld. While ancient Greek literary sources place Charon on the ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their ...

"For the same impact conditions, if we assume Pluto and Charon to be strengthless, they do merge into one large body, and Charon is absorbed. With strength, however, Pluto and Charon remain ...

Pluto seemed hopelessly cold and distant until 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons space probe beamed back images of the ... and its unusually large companion. “Pluto and Charon are different ...

Whereas a moon usually orbits a planet, both Pluto and Charon orbit a point in space between them — their common center of mass. The other four moons in the system — Styx, Nix, Kerberos and ...

(AP) — Salvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are ... They also recovered more human remains from the Potomac River, although they declined to offer specifics ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Salvage crews removed a large portion of a commercial jet from the Potomac River near Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Monday, five days after a midair collision that ...