The story behind Pluto's huge moon bodes well for distant ocean worlds
Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...
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 ...
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A Novel ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon, New Study Suggests
Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
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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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 ...
'A cosmic dance': How Pluto's ‘kiss and capture’ gave birth to its largest moon Charon
A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...
Pluto may have captured its biggest moon after an ancient dance and kiss
Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...
'Kiss and capture': Scientists propose new explanation for Charon, Pluto's largest moon
Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...
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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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Pluto ‘kissed’ its moon and captured it in orbit
Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...
You think it’s cold? The winter storm is nothing compared to these icy worlds
In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...
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Here’s how Pluto and Charon became a bizarre double planet
For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...