Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...
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 new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing collision.
A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the ...
The team led by Denton created simulations of the impact using high-performance computing clusters. This revealed that Pluto ...
Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...
Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.
Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...
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 ...
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.