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

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

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

The team led by Denton created simulations of the impact using high-performance computing clusters. This revealed that Pluto ...

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic ...

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

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

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

A new study suggests Pluto's largest moon, Charon, may have formed through a unique "kiss and capture" event billions of years ago.

The process that left Pluto and its largest moon orbiting each other at a close distance may have been a lot gentler than ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...

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