NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time - Scientists say ...

Pluto isn't alone—it's part of the Kuiper Belt with possibly hundreds of other planet-sized objects. Because Pluto hasn't ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may ... a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on ...

The article humorously portrays each planet of the solar system as different types of gym personalities. Jupiter is obsessed ...

"It's half Pluto's size and 12% of its mass, which makes it much more similar to the Earth's moon than any other moon in the solar system." For comparison, our moon is just a quarter of the size ...

Charon is unusual because it is the largest moon in the solar system compared with its parent body. In fact, Charon and Pluto are so similar in size that they are considered a double dwarf planet ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...