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

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Pluto can be thought of as being part of a binary system with its biggest satellite, Charon (pictured). Scientists have long thought that this system formed as the result of a collision between ...

What we've discovered is something entirely different – a 'kiss and capture' scenario where the bodies collide, stick together briefly and then separate while remaining gravitationally bound ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

hugging the smaller body close before the two split into a whirling pair — a mechanism dubbed ‘kiss-and-capture’. Previously, scientists thought that the binary system formed as the result ...

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

Pluto's Largest Moon Formed Through ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Redefining Icy Worlds, New Study Explains Experts postulated a ...

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.