In the cold depths of the solar system, a love story has been quietly unfolding, resulting in a striking celestial pairing: Pluto and its largest moon, Charon. A new theory, published in the journal Nature GeoScience, suggests that Charon was born of a violent collision between Pluto and the largest of its five known moons. In what experts have called a “kiss-and-capture” event, the two moved together in a brief cosmic ballet before breaking apart, each holding on to a bit of the other. Together, the two would go on to upend conventions........

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