Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

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

In tackling the excess problem, the team wrote that they "tend to believe" that the main difference between experiments and theory is the initial collision in air showers—when the high-energy ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.

Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions of years ago, Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, didn't have a ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

Discover 10 fascinating apocalyptic theories about how the universe might end, from the Big Crunch to vacuum decay. Explore ...

Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...