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

Pluto landed its largest moon ... "Most planetary collision scenarios are classified as 'hit and run' or 'graze and merge'," ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

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

Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...

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

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

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.

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

A new U of A study challenges decades of scientific assumptions about the origin of Pluto and its moon Charon.

Pluto and its moon Charon's meeting may be traced to a "kiss-and-capture" collision between the two. (CN) — The question of ...