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

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

Deimos is Mars' outer moon ... the dread felt by soldiers as they faced death. How big is Deimos compared with Earth's moon? Deimos is very small, measuring just 9.3 by 7.4 by 6.8 miles (15 ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Now, new research suggests that Pluto and Charon briefly came together billions of years ago in a newly discovered “kiss and capture” collision ... s moon, which was created after a Mars ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.