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.

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

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

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...

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

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

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 ...

Learn more about how this new mechanism may have shaped Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...