For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

The New Horizons spacecraft showed this when it flew by around a decade ago. Interestingly enough, Neptune, which is the closest planet to Pluto, crosses orbits with the dwarf planet. Pluto is inside ...

Pluto once held its place proudly as the ninth planet in our solar system,a distant, icy world on the edge of the cosmic frontier. But in 2006, everything changed. This in-depth explainer unpacks the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detection of TWA 7b represents a major milestone: the lightest exoplanet discovered with a direct image.