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

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured Pluto and its biggest moon ... experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more scientifically valuable. Rather than a cold, featureless ball ...

Rhoden and Denton both began working through the NASA Astrobiology ... Charon’s collision with Pluto would have raised the temperature of the the dwarf planet’s ice shell, which may have ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

A new study has proposed that Pluto captured Charon via a 'kiss'—rather than a catastrophic collision like the one that formed Earth's moon. NASA / JHUAPL ... after our planet collided with ...

By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago, the dwarf planet Pluto was suddenly ... and were glimpsed when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015.

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...

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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.