end up putting it in the right orbit. You get two things right for the price of one,” said Erik Asphaug, senior study author.

As they separated and this icy kiss ended, the team thinks that Pluto would have torqued Charon into a close, higher circular ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...

Pluto and Charon orbit a shared center of mass, much like figure skaters spinning together, a result of their unique collision process. The collision deposited internal heat into both bodies ...