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

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

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

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

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.

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

Digital mental health platforms were supposed to expand access for the neediest patients. Researchers say that hasn’t ...

5.998328 4! ~= 23.995890 5! ~= 119.986191 6! ~= 719.940735 7! ~= 5039.687500 8! ~= 40318.054688 9! ~= 362865.937500 There is an example file test_charon.py, which attempts to find out the formula of a ...

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

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

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