Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.

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

In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...

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

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

The RTG is the baseline power supply for New Horizons, launched in January 2006 on a journey to Pluto and its moon, Charon. It flew past Pluto in July 2015. NASA explores the unknown in air and space, ...

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

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 ...

Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...