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

Using computer models, researchers studying Pluto and its moon, Charon, have discovered an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...

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

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

Here’s how it works. Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon is really a misnomer; Pluto and Charon actually form a binary system. Whereas a moon usually ...

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 and ...

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.

But, just like with Earth’s moon, the details are fuzzy. “It goes, something hit Pluto, question mark question ... “If that’s true, kiss-and-capture happened all over the Kuiper Belt ...

SEE ALSO: NASA finds Earth's moon didn't need hundreds ... and tiny ice worlds. That made all the difference, Denton said. The simulation showed that Pluto and its impactor didn't merge, lose ...