TUCSON, Ariz. — How did Pluto end up with its largest moon, Charon? Like many entanglements, it started with a kiss. New research from the University of Arizona details a “kiss and capture ...

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. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A new theory about Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, could alter how planetary systems are taught in U.S. schools. Scientists suggest that 4.5 billion years ago, Pluto and Charon experienced a "kiss ...

The findings, published earlier this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, challenge the widely accepted notion that Pluto and Charon formed the same way the Earth and moon did, with a ...