Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

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

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

Charon and Earth’s moon are both a large fraction of the size of the main body they orbit, which is unlike other smaller moons orbiting planets throughout our solar system. (Pluto has four ...

"We think the Earth-Moon system initiated when a Mars-sized object hit the Earth and led to the formation of our large Moon ... a lot of material to the solar system. Pluto is bigger and started ...

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ... is seen on any other icy object in the solar system. One possibility is that Pluto and Charon's long, 248-Earth-year ...

A six-planet alignment or parade will form an arc in the early night sky, peaking in it's visibility Jan. 17-18. We let you ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario ... offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... A 'Remelting' of Lunar Surface Adds ...

It was intended to “communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials ... they had flown beyond the orbit of Pluto and thereby out of the reach of the planets of the solar system.

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.