The strange blend of surface chemistry on Nix and Hydra raises big question about the evolution of the Pluto system.

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

Pluto was identified in 1930, but by 1994, it was still little more than a blurry pixelated smudge on astronomers’ screens.

and Vesta as full-fledged members of our planetary system. Today, when tens of thousands of minor planets have been discovered (most residing in an "asteroid belt" between Mars and Pluto), not ...

Pluto's moon: NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before the spacecraft made ...

New exhibit to replace Greenbelt Planet Walk with a new trail through Julia Davis Park — but this time, with one less member ...

Our solar system has eight planets but in recent years, astronomers have theorised there could well be a ninth planet that's hiding in our solar system we've not been able to see yet.

The last thing, perhaps, astronomers expected to find was a six-mile deep canyon at the edge of the Solar System. But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological ...

Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Pluto's Moon Charon Oct ... Gigantic Asteroid Impact Shifted the Axis of Solar System's Biggest Moon Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an ...

This 'Kuiper Belt' of minor planets beyond Neptune revolutionised our understanding of the solar system's formation and finally explained the origin of the enigmatic outer planet Pluto. This is the ...

We won't be able to watch NASA's New Horizons spacecraft fly past Pluto in real time. But thanks to this awesome "Eyes on the Solar System" app developed by NASA, you can watch a simulation of the ...