New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

Learn more about how this new mechanism may have shaped Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

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.

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...