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

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 ...

The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, challenge the widely accepted notion that Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did, with a ...

To reach the underworld, these souls had to cross the Styx and Acheron rivers, which separated the world of the living from the world of the dead. They were aided by Charon, the ferryman who would ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...

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Back in the day (let’s say up through the 1990s and into the 2000s) the Holy Trinity was a delineation of the three very best Swiss mechanical watchmakers, each of which had built its reputation ...

New models suggest Pluto and Charon formed from a giant impact, hinting at ongoing geological activity and hidden oceans on Pluto. This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and ...

Pluto might have hogged much of the spotlight historically, but the dwarf planet is actually part of a double act, alongside its biggest satellite, Charon. A new analysis suggests that Pluto used ...