Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

While Pluto and Charon likely exchanged some material during the impact, both remained largely intact because of their composition, sticking together to form a snowman-like figure and rotating as one ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

The pair maintained this "kiss" for a while, spinning together as a single, snowman-shaped body, before parting again to form the binary pair we can see today. As a result, it is likely that both ...

the two bodies were united as a spinning "cosmic snowman." These bodies separated relatively quickly but remained orbitally linked to create the Pluto/Charon system we see today. This "kiss and ...