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

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

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

A few decades ago, the Solar System had nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as ...

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

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

J anuary 5, 2005, is an astronomical anniversary that is not really marked but should be. It saw the discovery of dwarf ...

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

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

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

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

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