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

Scientists propose Pluto and its moon Charon formed through a "kiss and capture" event 4.5 billion years ago, challenging ...

Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...

For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...

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

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

Few places in the solar system are better suited to a balloon than Titan. The combination of low gravity and high atmospheric ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

ISRO's SpaDeX mission takes a crucial step forward despite delays, as the spacecraft begin a slow drift course to prepare for ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

Two US astronauts who have been stuck for months on the International Space Station (ISS) said Wednesday they have plenty of ...