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

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

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...

A new theory about Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, could alter how planetary systems are taught in U.S. schools. Scientists ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

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

Astronomers have long wondered how Charon, the largest of those moons, came to orbit Pluto. A paper published Monday in the ...