The Last Judgment is a common theme in Christian art. Michelangelo, however, pushes beyond simple illustration to include pagan myths as well as to challenge traditional depiction of a calm, bearded ...

In days of old, the dead were buried with a silver coin (the shiner the better) so that the souls of the faithful departed could pay the toll to the deathless demon ferryman of the underworld: Charon.

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Charon uses encrypted payloads and trusted binaries to bypass EDR defenses, marking a shift toward stealthier, more persistent ransomware campaigns. Trend Micro has identified a new ransomware strain, ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

Here's what to know about the brief tenure of our solar system's smallest planet.

Charon is the largest of the five known moons, or natural satellites, of the dwarf planet Pluto. With a diameter of 1,212 kilometres (slightly more than half the diameter of Pluto), Charon is the 12th ...

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New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...