New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...
Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...
The “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been ...
Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...
Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...
“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...
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.
Learn more about how this new mechanism may have shaped Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.