This "kiss-and-capture" event offers a new understanding of how moons are captured and helps scientists learn more about how ...

A new theory has emerged to explain how Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, billions of years ago through a unique "kiss-and-capture" collision. The process, proposed by researchers, ...

Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...

The team led by Denton created simulations of the impact using high-performance computing clusters. This revealed that Pluto ...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

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 ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

Parker Solar Probe to fly closest to the Sun at 6:53 a.m. EST on Dec. 24 The spacecraft will travel at 430,000 mph through the Sun’s corona NASA’s record-breaking mission offers new insights into ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that ...

On the heels of a NASA spacecraft's historic close flyby of the sun on Christmas Eve, scientists on Earth have one question ...