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

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

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

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

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

Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...

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

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

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.

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

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

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