Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of Saturn and other icy bodies in the solar system.

The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...

Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory ...

Brad E Tucker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The planet Neptune wobbled in its orbit around the Sun. That could only mean one thing, astronomers said: There was a ninth planet out there, somewhere, lurking in the fringes of the solar system.

The planet of death is entering its five month retrograde cycle. photogeek - stock.adobe.com Gather round — we’re talking death and renewal and the backspin of the petite but potent planet Pluto, ...