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

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 ...

They needed some space. New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature ...

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

Pluto is no longer classified as a planet, it’s a dwarf planet, however, it still has five moons. Now astronomers say they ...

This "kiss-and-capture" event offers a new understanding of how moons are captured and helps scientists learn more about how ...

A new theory has emerged to explain how Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, billions of years ago through a unique "kiss-and-capture" collision. The process, proposed by researchers, ...

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

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

How did Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, form? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of r | Space ...

A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.