New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon ... icy worlds in the Kuiper Belt. "We've found that if we assume that Pluto and Charon are ...

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon ... capture" process represents a new theory of moon capture and cosmic collision. It could also help ...

Credit: NASA/Robert Lea (created with Canva) New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon ... "We've found that if we assume that Pluto and Charon ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

This is how Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, originated ... icy worlds—researchers have discovered an entirely new type of cosmic collision. The findings were published in the journal ...

The biggest and oldest of ... closer to better understanding the Moon's early history and evolution over time." Previous work on the South Pole-Aitken basin found that the impact was created ...

Pluto landed its largest moon ... Modeling the impact, the team found that—rather than being stretched like silly putty by the collision—Pluto and its proto-moon instead temporarily stuck ...

“Their discovery is credited to Galileo, but they were possibly discovered at the same time ... four tone poems about the largest moons of Jupiter—Io, ... [+] Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.