It was not until 1994 that the Hubble Space Telescope produced the first image of both Pluto and ... Christy and the Discovery of Charon, Pluto's Satellite', Journal of the Royal Astronomical ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon ... the largest [Kuiper Belt objects] have a large mass fraction satellite like Charon," Denton said in an email. "This process might have operated ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" ...

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

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.

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.

Tthe dwarf planet Pluto (R) and Charon are shown July 11, 2015. (Photo by NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via Getty ... [+] Images) Researchers studying Pluto and Charon have long drawn a parallel to how Earth ...

Pluto landed its largest moon, Charon, with a 'kiss'—overturning decades of scientific assumptions about how planetary bodies form and evolve. This is the conclusion of a new study, conducted at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions of years ago, Pluto ... images revealed a geologically diverse world, with mountains, ice sheets, pits, cliffs, cracks, and valleys ...