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

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

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 has had a tough couple of decades. Formerly the ninth planet in our solar system, Pluto was demoted in 2006 to a “dwarf planet.” Only 1,400 miles wide, about half the width of the lower 48 ...

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 ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

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 ...

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 ...