We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is ...

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

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

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

This "kiss-and-capture" event offers a new understanding of how moons are captured and helps scientists learn more about how ...

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

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 ...

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

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

We went to the public library in Sham Shui Po during our school’s reading week. Hong Kong’s public libraries give us many ...