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

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

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

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

Learn more about how this new mechanism may have shaped Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

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

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

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