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

Whereas a moon usually orbits a planet, both Pluto and Charon orbit a point in space between them — their common center of mass. The other four moons in the system — Styx, Nix, Kerberos and ...

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

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

In fact, Charon is so large compared to its host world that it and Pluto actually orbit a common center of mass (or "barycenter") that is outside the surface of Pluto itself. This peculiar mass ...

After about 30 hours of contact, Charon separated from Pluto and began to migrate into the orbit it has today. Denton and colleagues found that two other pairs of objects, dwarf planet Eris and ...

Because Charon is just over half the size of Pluto, the two bodies then began orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. However, a recent study in Nature ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ...

Pluto has five moons, but Charon stands out from the rest ... “A dwarf planet is an object in orbit around the sun that is large enough to pull itself into a nearly round shape but has not ...

In fact, Charon is so large compared to its host world that it and Pluto actually orbit a common center of mass (or “barycenter”) that is outside the surface of Pluto itself. This peculiar ...