Seuk Kim left behind a finance career to chase his dream of becoming a pilot. He took off one day in November with four dogs ...

This composite image of Pluto, right, and Charon, its largest moon, showcases photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI Unlike how scientists ...

Eris is three times more distant than Pluto. And its relationship to Pluto — a world demoted since 2006 from the solar system’s ninth planet to a lowly dwarf planet, in large part due to the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Scribbles in my Cavs notebook: 1. It’s easy to take Donovan Mitchell for granted. With Darius Garland getting a night off when the Cavs played Wednesday in Miami, Mitchell ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – “You drafted two guys who are All-Stars.” That’s what Cavs Coach Kenny Atkinson said to Koby Altman, the Cavs team president. If you purchase a product or register for an ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the ...

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" New ...

Pluto, considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it was reclassified to dwarf planet status in 2006, is thought to have undergone an impact that broke off the largest of its five moons ...

New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto ...

New research from the University of Arizona (U of A) claims that Pluto may not have been created with a bang, but with a kiss. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, looks at how Pluto and its ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture ...

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