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

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

Using simulations that took into account parameters like the size and composition of the bodies, along with the strength at ...

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

A study led by Adeene Denton, a NASA postdoctoral fellow who conducted the research at the U of A Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has revealed this unexpected "kiss and capture" mechanism ...

So how did Pluto get its chonky companion? A new study suggests an unusual mechanism called “kiss and capture.” The “kiss and capture” concept for Charon’s formation detours from ...

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 ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism contradicts previous theories about the provenance of Charon that supposed it must have formed from a giant impact, like the one hypothesized to have formed Earth ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" New ...

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