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 ...

Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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