The story behind Pluto's huge moon bodes well for distant ocean worlds
Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...
Pluto’s Weirdly Big Moon May Have Come From A ‘Kiss And Capture’
Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...
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NASA just released a video of what it would be like to land on Pluto
An curved arrow pointing right. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years to reach the distant world of Pluto, but it was well worth the wait. This video reveals six weeks of images ...
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Pluto ‘kissed’ its moon and captured it in orbit
Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...
“Kiss and Capture:” The Icy Collision That Bound Pluto and Charon Forever
Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...
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Here’s how Pluto and Charon became a bizarre double planet
For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...
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Pluto and its Moon Charon Formed Through a Cosmic “Kiss and Capture”
Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.
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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
The weeks leading up to the Pluto encounter will be punctuated with tense analyses of the newest images from New Horizons. As Tombaugh did eight decades earlier, the team will be searching for ...
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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space ...
Image of the week: Pluto and Charon's fascinating embrace
New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.
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Pluto: What are NASA’s five big discoveries so far?
Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark patches. The best Hubble Telescope images were only 150 pixels across. The new pictures show much more ...