For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the size of the dwarf planet. Now, new research suggests that Pluto and Charon ...

Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory suggests a novel “kiss and capture” event, where the two celestial bodies ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) New research suggests that billions of years ago, ...

"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

Pluto and its moon Charon may have been briefly locked together in a cosmic “kiss”, before the dwarf planet released the smaller body and recaptured it in its orbit. Charon is the largest of Pluto’s ...

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Tomorrow (14 July) marks the day when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals the best look at Pluto we’re ever likely to see for decades to come but, just 1m miles from its destination, we’ve already ...

New Horizons The pictures coming back from NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft are still fuzzy, but they reveal a startling fact about the unexplored icy world: it has a different colour than ...