As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

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

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

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

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

Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...

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

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

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 ...