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 ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, rather than by gravitationally capturing them. Due to Pluto and Charon's rocky, ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar ... Scientists have been split on whether it resulted from external ...

It was previously thought that Charon formed in the wake of a massive collision billions of years ago, much like how Earth's moon was born after our planet collided with a Mars-sized world dubbed ...

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.

This "kiss and capture" process represents a new theory of moon capture and cosmic collision ... "Charon is HUGE relative to Pluto, to the point where they are actually a binary," Denton explained.

Unlike traditional collision models, this event challenges previous theor... New research proposes that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, could have originated from an asteroid torn apart by the ...