Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic ...

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

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

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

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

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn't stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A priceless piece of Moon rock donated to Ireland following a Nasa mission was destroyed in a fire, newly released records show (Niall Carson/PA) A priceless piece of Moon rock donated to Ireland ...

Documents released from Ireland's National Archive have revealed that a priceless piece of moon rock donated by NASA spent years in a government basement before being lost in a fire at the Dunsink ...