As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

At just 18 years old, Julian Fitzgerald is turning heads with what might be the most impressive natural physique we've ever seen. We take a closer look at his training, genetics, and what makes him ...

Jupiter’s ice-covered ocean moon Europa floats above the planet’s Great Red Spot in this 1979 image from Voyager 1. This is a ...

Scientists have identified an object about 700km wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the existence of a theoretical Planet Nine.

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

This “kiss and capture” process could rewrite how we understand the birth of moons and planets far from the sun. Pluto and Charon ... acts as a natural laboratory for understanding angular ...

Charon is the largest of the five known moons, or natural satellites, of the dwarf planet Pluto. With a diameter of 1,212 kilometres (slightly more than half the diameter of Pluto), Charon is the 12th ...

(Pluto has four smaller moons besides Charon ... to wait on while technology catches up with the complexity of the natural world — changed the answer and opened up a new suite of possible ...