Pluto's Largest Moon Formed Through ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Redefining Icy Worlds, New Study Explains Experts postulated a ...

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 ...

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

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 current orbital ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

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 ...

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.

In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...

NASA reveals Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, with frozen oceans and signs of ancient hydrothermal activity, sparking interest in its habitability and solar history.

But the biggest confusion comes with the subtypes of the non-planets. If an object is large enough to make itself round but ...