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

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

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

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

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

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

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

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.

For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...

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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 ...

In the wake of this colossal impact, the colliding bodies behaved like fluids, with the moon forming out of the molten debris which had been ejected into space. "Pluto and Charon are different ...