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.

The “Kiss and Capture” Process: A New Theory. The new theory, supported by simulations and advanced computational models, suggests that Pluto and Charon didn’t undergo a violent crash, but ...

The team ran advanced computer simulations of the Pluto-Charon impact and included these key structural features. In turn, ...

Pluto won Charon over with a 10 hour kiss. The reason Pluto's relationship with Charon has been challenging to scientists is because of the relatively small difference in size and mass between the ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

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. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ...

Pluto, considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it was reclassified to dwarf planet status in 2006, is thought to have undergone an impact that broke off the largest of its five moons ...

They needed some space. New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision.. The report, published in “Nature Geoscience ...

A full view of Pluto's crescent, captured by NASA's New Horizons team on July 14, 2015, as the spacecraft looked back at Pluto toward the sun. (NASA) (CN) — The question of how Pluto captured its moon ...

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.