New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was ...

"What we've discovered is something entirely different – a 'kiss and capture' scenario where the bodies collide, stick ... But Pluto and Charon are different from Earth and the Moon, too ...

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 ...

“What we’ve discovered is something entirely different — a ‘kiss and capture’ scenario where the bodies collide, stick ... Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did ...

Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative to its parent planet in our solar system,” NASA notes. So how did Pluto get its chonky companion? A new study ...

A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.

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. When you purchase through links on our site ...