SpaceX aims to launch Starship Flight 7 on Monday (Jan. 13), an ambitious test that will feature an attempted launch-tower catch of the first-stage booster. Blue Origin will launch its first-ever New ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

ISRO's SpaDeX mission takes a crucial step forward despite delays, as the spacecraft begin a slow drift course to prepare for ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Scientists propose Pluto and its moon Charon formed through a “kiss and capture” event 4.5 billion years ago, challenging previous theories about their unique size ratio and orbital relationship.

Some 4.5 billion years ago, the dwarf planet Pluto was suddenly joined by a companion. For a very brief period — perhaps only ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on 34 felony counts in the Stormy Daniels hush money case on Friday ...

A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...

A new theory about Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, could alter how planetary systems are taught in U.S. schools. Scientists ...