New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

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Experience "Pluto Time" on Earth and discover why Pluto isn’t as dark as it appears. NASA’s findings reveal surprising light levels, thanks to New Horizons. Learn how this distant world continues to ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

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

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

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

Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...

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

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

The team led by Denton created simulations of the impact using high-performance computing clusters. This revealed that Pluto ...