What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar ...

Charon, a long-time resident of Palm Coast, Florida, passed away peacefully in her home on May 27, 2025, at age 86, just shy of her 87th birthday. She had also lived in Wilton, Connecticut; Little ...

The New Horizons spacecraft flew quickly past Pluto and its moon Charon in July 2015, capturing images with its camera. Based on the recorded images, digital restoration of Charon's surface has ...

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.

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

The “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been discussing how the binary system—in which each mutually orbits the ...

Jerusalem Post / Science / Science Around the World 'Kiss and capture': Scientists propose new explanation for Charon, Pluto's largest moon Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the ...

Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. In the resulting “kiss-and-capture” regime, Pluto ...