Researchers believe that 2017 OF201’s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...

JWST confirms Pluto’s haze cools its mesosphere and drives methane escape, coating Charon’s poles red. The haze absorbs UV light, heats the upper atmosphere, and re-radiates heat as infrared.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission has taken humanity closer than ever to understanding the mysterious dwarf planet, Pluto. In 2015, ...

New data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has finally given astronomers new clues about how Pluto cools itself.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...

Here are some of the year’s most remarkable discoveries. In January 2022 ... protein structures—many of them previously unknown to science. The companies used artificial intelligence to ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...