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

They needed some space. New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a ...

Within it lies the dwarf planets Pluto, Eris, Orcus and more. It's thought that there exist more than 100,000 Kuiper belt objects over 100 km in diameter. The Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Objects ...

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

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

A new theory has emerged to explain how Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, billions of years ago through a unique "kiss-and-capture" collision. The process, proposed by researchers, ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The tantalizing prospect of a ninth planet is suggested by a paper published in The Astronomical Journal, which explores the orbit of objects in the distant Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt (also ...

in the Kuiper belt are not primordial but attained their present large separations during multiple encounters with other trans-Neptunian objects, and constrain Solar System formation and evolution ...