For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the ...

Something rare is happening in the skies in the next few days — a black moon. This rare celestial event is due to an unusual calendar alignment: two new moons in one month. The first occurred ...

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

A new theory about Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, could alter how planetary systems are taught in U.S. schools. Scientists suggest that 4.5 billion years ago, Pluto and Charon experienced a "kiss ...

Scientists widely agree that Earth’s moon formed in a similar way. Pluto and Charon, however, are very different from our Earth and moon. While the moon clearly orbits Earth, Pluto and Charon o ...

For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, known as the Giant Impact Hypothesis, states that roughly 4.5 billion ...

Astronomers have long wondered how Charon, the largest of those moons, came to orbit Pluto. A paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience described a possible sequence of events that may ...

Charon was completely rewritten, configuration via application.yml file is no longer available. Now Charon can be configured by in-code configuration. See the documentation for more details.

A new theory has emerged to explain how Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, billions of years ago through a unique "kiss-and-capture" collision. The process, proposed by researchers, ...

New theory explains Pluto’s moon Charon’s formation "Kiss-and-capture" collision occurred in Kuiper Belt Charon's formation could reshape moon theories ...

Besides Earth's moon, these were the first natural satellites anyone had ever seen in the solar system. Space OTD In Space – January 8: Soviet Union Launches 2nd Lunar Rover ...

SAN ANTONIO — January 7, 2025 —A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the ...