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

They needed some space. 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 ...

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

Discover the red planet like never before! This month offers a unique opportunity to witness Mars in stunning detail. From ...

A new theory has emerged to explain how Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, billions of years ago through a unique "kiss-and-capture" collision. The process, proposed by researchers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the ...

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

Learn more about how this new mechanism may have shaped Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

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