Studying Pluto in more detail might tell us whether its cosmic dance really did take place, although it is likely to be a long time before another spacecraft visits the dwarf planet.

As it turns out, the story of Pluto and Charon may have been more like a dance than a full-throttle collision.

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The pair of them orbit around a common center of mass outside of Pluto. They are dancing – and this dance might have started not with a collision, but with a "kiss". This is how planetary ...

Because Charon is just over half the size of Pluto, the two bodies then began orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. However, a recent study in Nature ...

"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 may have captured its biggest Moon after an ancient dance and kiss Astronomers have long wondered how Charon, the largest of those moons, came to orbit Pluto.