Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic collision.
Learn more about how this new mechanism may have shaped Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
How did Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, form? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of r | Space ...
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...
Researchers in China have used a novel approach to explain the presence of supra-thermal ions in nuclear fusion reactions.
A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the ...
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 ...
This discovery highlights the profound impact of the Moon-forming collision on Earth's structure and composition. Using computational fluid dynamics and a novel simulation method called Meshless ...
A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems ...
The Moon is thought to have been born from a collision between the early Earth and a Mars-sized protoplanet—the last giant impact in our planet’s history ... The interplay between geochemistry and ...