For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...
Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...
Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...
Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...
The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in ...
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.
Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...
Charon, the largest and most well-studied of Pluto's five moons, was first visited in 2015 as part of the groundbreaking New ...
The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.