But Charon was half the size of Pluto itself, so big that the Pluto-Charon combination are sometimes referred to as a double planet, according to NASA. In August 2006 the International ...

From our perspective, the two planets will be so close, they will form an unusual "double planet." However, in reality, their ...

Saturn and Jupiter will come so close together they will look like a double planet. Astronomers call it a conjunction. (CREDIT: WINK News) A once in a lifetime astronomical event is happening ...

Now the International Space Station crew is back on earth, astronomers are looking forward to the next big event, the double planet of Venus and Jupiter appearing in the night sky on June 30th.