Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...

You can see NASA's concept for the potential mission here. After visiting the Pluto-Charon system, New Horizons carried onward and flew past a Kuiper Belt object known as Arrokoth, which you can ...

It was led by C. Adeene Denton, a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Southwest Research Institute, and published today in the journal Nature Geoscience. Pluto and Charon hold a unique place in the ...

A new study has proposed that Pluto captured Charon via a 'kiss'—rather than a catastrophic collision like the one that formed Earth's moon. NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI In their study, Denton and ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) 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 ...

who is a NASA Postdoctoral Researcher at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and lead author of the study. Simulation snapshot of Pluto and Charon during “kiss-and-capture” scenario that could ...

Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative to its parent planet in our solar system,” NASA notes. So how did Pluto get its chonky companion? A new study ...

With Charon being half Pluto’s size, experts have struggled ... bound,” says planetary scientist Adeene Denton, a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed ...

It was led by C. Adeene Denton, a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Southwest Research Institute, and published today in the journal Nature Geoscience. Pluto and Charon hold a unique place in the ...