Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...
For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the ...
Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...
University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
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Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...
New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto ...
The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...