Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

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

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

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

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Scientists propose Pluto and its moon Charon formed through a "kiss and capture" event 4.5 billion years ago, challenging ...

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

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.

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

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

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...