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

A grumpy ferryman called Charon would take them across ... to make sure they could pay the fare. After crossing the River Styx, three judges decided where the dead person should spend eternity.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2024, Boss Fight Books released a book on Animal Crossing, written by game historian Kelsey Lewin, exploring how this all began. Below, as part of Polygon’s Culture Shock special issue ...

Aside from the Wii U, there's been a new mainline Animal Crossing game on every Nintendo console since the GameCube's release in 2001. It stands to reason, then, that the newly announced Nintendo ...