Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...

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

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

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where ...

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 ...

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.

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

J anuary is a good month for interesting planetary alignment. You will have a lot going on in the night sky. For most of the ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing collision.

In the UK's Whitley Bay, a shining waxing crescent Moon glows with Venus to the right ... shining brightly above a crescent Moon. The planet was visible to the naked eye from the UK to the US ...