Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...
The “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been discussing how the binary system—in which each mutually orbits the ...
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
How did Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, form? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of researchers led by the University of Arizona ...
Rumya Sundaram, Citizen Scientist Coordinator for the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, will present this month’s Citizen ...