Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...
University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...
Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...
For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the ...
The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...
Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...
New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.
Here’s how it works. Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon is really a misnomer; Pluto and Charon actually form a binary system. Whereas a moon usually ...
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