New research suggests that Pluto may have acquired its most massive moon, Charon, through an ancient grazing impact, which the science team refers to as a “kiss and capture”. The study uses computer ...

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 ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, said Renu Malhotra, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who has ...

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The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists. The team is the first to successfully reproduce the ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to ...

Pluto was identified in 1930, but by 1994, it was still little more than a blurry pixelated smudge on astronomers’ screens. Today, we marvel at its icy plains, towering mountains, and stunningly ...

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