Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic ...