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

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.

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

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 ...

Mankind is at the threshold of discoveries. How does Pluto’s distance help us understand ... That's still one of the biggest secrets of science. The universe could be infinite, or it could ...

And its relationship to Pluto — a world demoted since 2006 from the solar system’s ninth planet to a lowly dwarf planet, in large part due to the discovery of Eris — remains contentious today.