What we’ve discovered is something entirely different – a ‘kiss and capture’ scenario where the bodies collide, stick ...

This proved that Charon and Pluto ended up orbiting each other after a “kiss-and-capture” event. During this event, Charon crashed into Pluto and the pair rotated together briefly, which ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an inferior conjunction.