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Pluto may have captured its moon Charon

Pluto’s Weirdly Big Moon May Have Come From A ‘Kiss And Capture’

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies engaged in a celestial kiss and tango.

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Pluto And Its Moon Came Together With 'Kiss And Capture', Study Says

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined for a period of time, billions of years ago, before separating into a stable, long-term orbital dance.

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Space: How Pluto Landed its Moon With a 'Kiss'

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic collision.

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How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.

Image of the week: Pluto and Charon's fascinating embrace

New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.

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Feast your eyes on NASA's stunning 'farewell to Pluto' photo

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New Horizons Pluto close-ups

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, and it took the most detailed images of the planet that have ever been seen. NASA just released some of the ...

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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System

The weeks leading up to the Pluto encounter will be punctuated with tense analyses of the newest images from New Horizons. As Tombaugh did eight decades earlier, the team will be searching for ...

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With New Horizons, Pluto Gets Some Respect, for a Change

Meet New Horizons, arriving at Pluto on July 14 ... manage the elementary decencies of civilization — taking close-up pictures and chemical readings of a mysterious world nine and a half ...

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Hubble Telescope and New Horizons Pluto probe team up to image Uranus

Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons ...

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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to ...

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