A team from the University of Arizona has made a startling new discovery about the formation of Pluto and its moon. Published ...

The team from the University of Arizona proposed that Pluto captured Charon through an unusual mechanism termed "kiss and capture," suggesting a different formation process than the previously ...

Now, new research suggests that Pluto and Charon briefly came together billions of years ago in a newly discovered “kiss and capture” collision. Scientists have long theorized that Charon ...