Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

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

Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and ...

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

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

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

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

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...

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

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