There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the ...

Pluto was long considered our ninth planet, but the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

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 ...

However, in this instance, it is not the galaxies but rather Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, that has thrilled scientists. Two new materials were found on the surface of the moon, researchers said: ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its status as the ninth planet in our Solar System.

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Five planets are retrograde in summer 2025: Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Mercury and Uranus. Astrologically, that means in for a ...

A new framework urges leaders to see the world as PLUTO: polarized, liquid, unilateral, tense and omnirelational, and to ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...