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

With Charon being half Pluto’s size, experts have struggled to explain how it ended up in the dwarf planet’s domain. Now, a team of researchers has suggested that Pluto may have secured Charon ...

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

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where ...

Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...

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

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

A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.

Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and ...

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

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

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...