Artist's view of Pluto (bottom right) and Charon from images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Pluto has a massive ...

Artist's impression of New Horizons' close encounter with the Pluto–Charon system. Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben. On July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons probe made history by ...

Rather than melting together or ricocheting, Pluto and Charon essentially merged in a ... exist beneath Pluto’s icy crust. A Dewars Farm artist drew an image of the Megalosaurus (left) and ...

Rather than melting together or ricocheting, Pluto and Charon essentially merged in a cosmic snowman ... ocean suspected to exist beneath Pluto’s icy crust. A Dewars Farm artist drew an image of the ...

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 ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture ...

A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both ...

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 ...

With Charon being half Pluto’s size, experts have struggled to explain how it ended up in the dwarf planet’s domain. Now, a team of researchers has suggested that Pluto may have secured Charon ...

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