An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...
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Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a brief kissPluto and its moon Charon may have been briefly locked together in a cosmic “kiss”, before the dwarf planet released the smaller body and recaptured it in its orbit. Charon is the largest of ...
The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, challenge the widely accepted notion that Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did, with a ...
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...
The first high-resolution images sent back by Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft are already making scientists rethink their ideas about Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. They used to believe the ...
Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Pluto has five moons, but Charon stands out from the rest. Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative ...
Charon measures half of Pluto's diameter, making it approximately 754 miles across. This size ratio makes the Pluto-Charon system a rarity, often referred to as a binary planet system.
A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.
Pluto and Charon formed from a “kiss and capture” collision, a new study from the University of Arizona reveals, rewriting theories of planetary formation. Unlike catastrophic impacts ...
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