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 ...
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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
seeding the binary system with space rubble that could make New Horizons’ visit more than a little treacherous. Three illustrations show what Pluto's surface might look like. The top image shows ...
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Animation of Pluto's surface
In July, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time. The photos the craft sent back so far have astounded researchers. New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says ...
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JWST reveals surprising surface chemistry is occurring on Pluto’s moon Charon
As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...
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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 ...
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With New Horizons, Pluto Gets Some Respect, for a Change
Meet New Horizons, arriving at Pluto on July 14 ... with its vast ocean under a crust of surface ice, the most inviting potential habitat for extraterrestrial life that human beings will ever ...
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Pluto may have ‘kissed’ Charon to capture it
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
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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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
The flyby of New Horizons nine years later revealed Pluto to be geologically active ... organic compounds on its surface and faults in its crust, the latter suggesting plate tectonics.