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

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

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

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

Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...

Experience "Pluto Time" on Earth and discover why Pluto isn’t as dark as it appears. NASA’s findings reveal surprising light levels, thanks to New Horizons. Learn how this distant world continues to ...

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.

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

The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...