Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This ...

Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This ...

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and its moon, Charon. This celestial dance defied expectations, birthing a ...

England and Bath centre Ollie Lawrence has denied he cheated to get Alex Mitchell sin-binned in his side's Premiership clash ...

Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...

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

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

This differs from traditional planetary collision scenarios like "hit and run" or "graze and merge," where either a permanent merger or complete separation occurs. Charon, which is about half the size ...

New theory explains Pluto’s moon Charon’s formation "Kiss-and-capture" collision occurred in Kuiper Belt Charon's formation could reshape moon theories ...