What we’ve discovered is something entirely different – a ‘kiss and capture’ scenario where the bodies collide, stick ... of Earth’s moon doesn’t perfectly apply to Pluto and Charon.

For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon ... scenario where the bodies collide, stick together briefly and then separate while remaining ...

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 ...

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But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological features. There was more, on Pluto itself, that recalled the American mid-west. Dark streaks on Pluto's plains ...