Space on MSN11d
How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...
Arizona Daily Star7d
U of A researchers describe cosmic 'kiss' that bound Pluto to largest moon
University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...
Hosted on MSN17d
The story behind Pluto's huge moon bodes well for distant ocean worlds
When Pluto and Charon hit ... Rather than a cold, featureless ball on the fringes of the solar system, the spacecraft images revealed a geologically diverse world, with mountains, ice sheets ...
National Geographic news6y
Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
After passing Pluto, the craft will continue into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Scientists suspect there may be yet more moons around Pluto, some perhaps sharing or swapping orbits and ...
Science Daily20d
Pluto-Charon formation scenario mimics Earth-Moon system
Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size of the main body, unlike other moons in the solar system. The scenario also could support Pluto's active geology and possible ...
CNN on MSN17d
Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
But these theories didn’t account for the fact that Pluto and Charon may have more structural integrity as icy, rocky bodies on the frigid edge of the solar system. “Pluto and Charon are different — ...
Forbes1y
Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto ... of the sun and its solar wind at the very edges of ...