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

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A new theory about Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, could alter how planetary systems are taught in U.S. schools. Scientists ...

A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.