Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...
Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...
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 ...
New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.
Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...
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.