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Pluto may have captured its moon Charon

Pluto May Have Won Its Moon Charon with a ‘Kiss’

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour ‘kiss-and-capture’ encounter after a grazing collision

Forbes · 1d

Pluto’s Weirdly Big Moon May Have Come From A ‘Kiss And Capture’

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies engaged in a celestial kiss and tango.

New Scientist on MSN · 22h

Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a brief kiss

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a stable orbit around the dwarf planet

Newsweek on MSN · 1d

Space: How Pluto Landed its Moon With a 'Kiss'

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic collision.

Space on MSN · 1d

How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'

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.

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Heads to the Moon This Month

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The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Heads to the Moon This Month: Here's What to Know

The upcoming mission includes the Blue Ghost lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace and the Tenacious lunar rover from the Japanese company ispace and is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

Fox News · 5d

Orbiter photos show lunar modules from first 2 moon landings more than 50 years later

Photos taken by the India Space Research Organization moon orbiter Chandrayaan 2 recently show aerial images of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12's lunar landing vehicles.

Space.com · 20h

SpaceX launch of private Blue Ghost moon lander set for Jan. 15

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now scheduled to launch to the moon at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday, Jan. 15, taking off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission, known as "Ghost Riders in the Sky," will see Blue Ghost will ride to space aboard SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

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The first full moon of 2025 is almost here, plus these four planets are putting on a show

The first full moon of 2025 is nearly here. Dubbed the "wolf moon" for its connection to wolves calling on those long January ...

US company Firefly Aerospace to launch for moon next week

US company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the moon next week under an experimental NASA ...

NASA is calibrating new clocks so people can live on the moon

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...

It's 2025 yet photographs of the first moon landing sites are all it takes to get people crying it was fake

Photographs of the first moon landing sites on 'X' bring conspiracy theories to the surface in a series of denial comments ...

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Chang'e-5 samples provide evidence that moon had magnetic field 2 billion years ago

A large team of researchers with varied backgrounds at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found evidence of a weak magnetic ...

CNET on MSN1d

The Wolf Moon Howls Again in a Week. Here's How to Watch

January's full Wolf Moon will make Mars vanish, but it's only temporary. Watch for the red planet's disappearing act from the ...

When To See The Moon Eclipse Seven Stars As Venus Shines: The Night Sky This Week

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

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Pluto may have captured its moon Charon

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Heads to the Moon This Month

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