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

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

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

The “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been discussing how the binary system—in which each mutually orbits the other—came ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

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

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

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 ...