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Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, ...

Pluto landed its largest moon, Charon, with a 'kiss'—overturning decades of scientific ... "Most planetary collision scenarios are classified as 'hit and run' or 'graze and merge'," explained NASA ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...

Although previous images showed that something was happening on Pluto, with an average temperature of -240C, many people assumed it was a cold and relatively dead world. That was until NASA's 'New ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA released this video made from over 100 high-resolution images taken of the former planet Pluto. It gives us a never-before-seen view of the details on the surface.

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space ...

A new study has proposed that Pluto captured Charon via a 'kiss'—rather than a catastrophic collision like the one that formed Earth's moon. NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI In their study, Denton and ...

Styx is also the name for one of the smaller moons in the Pluto system, and the others (Nix, Kerberos and Hydra) also have connections to the underworld mythology. According to NASA, Christy also ...