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

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For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the ...

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

Scientists propose Pluto and its moon Charon formed through a "kiss and capture" event 4.5 billion years ago, challenging ...

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

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 ...

Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...