“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.

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

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

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

A new U of A study challenges decades of scientific assumptions about the origin of Pluto and its moon Charon.

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

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Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...