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

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

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

For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...

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.

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

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

The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in ...

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.

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 ...