“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 ...

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

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have got its largest moon, Charon, through an icy "kiss". The ...

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.

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

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, ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

This, in turn, would help explain why Pluto and other large Kuiper Belt Objects are rock-rich, said Truong. While the findings hold true for the KBO region, researchers say the increased carbon in ...

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 ...