Now, a team of researchers has suggested that Pluto may have secured Charon through a newly described “kiss and capture” mechanism that challenges previous theories. Their work was published ...

Remember Pluto, the dwarf planet who lost its planetary status back in 2006? Well if there’s one other thing you should know about the most famous dwarf planet in our solar system, it’s that ...

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 ...

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 ...

But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological features. There was more, on Pluto itself, that recalled the American mid-west. Dark streaks on Pluto's plains ...