Pluto's Largest Moon Formed Through ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Redefining Icy Worlds, New Study Explains Experts postulated a ...

Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was ...

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

New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature Geoscience,” describes how the minuscule dwarf ...

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

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

A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.

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

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

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

NASA reveals Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, with frozen oceans and signs of ancient hydrothermal activity, ...