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

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their ...

Pluto's Largest Moon Formed Through ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Redefining Icy Worlds, New Study Explains Experts postulated a ...

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

They call this cosmic dance a “kiss and capture” event, which could indicate Charon and Pluto are roughly the same age. “Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because ...

A study led by Adeene Denton, a NASA postdoctoral fellow who conducted the research at the U of A Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has revealed this unexpected "kiss and capture" mechanism ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism contradicts previous theories about the provenance of Charon that supposed it must have formed from a giant impact, like the one hypothesized to have formed Earth ...

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

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

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

Pluto can be thought of as being part of a binary system with its biggest satellite, Charon (pictured). Scientists have long thought that this system formed as the result of a collision between ...