New Horizons Spacecraft Pluto

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.

Courthouse News Service · 7h

Study: Pluto captured its moon with a ‘kiss’

Pluto and its moon Charon's meeting may be traced to a "kiss-and-capture" collision between the two. (CN) — The question of how Pluto captured its moon Charon may have been answered, thanks to new modeling suggesting a “kiss-and-capture” scenario linked the two bodies together.

Newsweek on MSN · 6h

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.

Space on MSN · 9h

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.

Gizmodo · 3h

Sealed With a Kiss: The Unexpected Origin Story of Pluto and Its Moon Charon

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming temporarily stuck together, spinning in a cosmic dance before separating into two objects that are forever bound in orbit,

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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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A new mission to Pluto could answer the questions raised by New Horizons

There are practical and sentimental reasons for that—Pluto has tantalizing mysteries to unlock that New Horizons, the most recent spacecraft to visit the system, only added to. To research ...

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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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As the US and China race to the moon, these loopholes in space law could cause conflict

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn't stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe formed a cool tag team to investigate the mysterious ...

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