Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that Pluto’s ethereal, bluish haze represents "a new kind of ...

A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered ... rewrite the space map. This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto — and ...

The diameter of Pluto, meanwhile, is 2,377 km. Further observations, potentially using radio telescopes, are needed to determine the object's exact size. Cheng discovered the object as part of an ...

They circle a shared point in space ... interactions might explain how Pluto retained enough thermal energy to support liquid water for extended periods. This discovery could reshape our ...

Today, visitors can explore Lowell Observatory, which opened an expansive new Astronomy Discovery Center in November 2024, and see the historic Pluto Discovery Telescope up close. No. Pluto is ...

Tombaugh's photos that led to the discovery of Planet X. Pluto never really fit in with ... Mike Brown, professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech in Pasadena, California, gets the credit for ...

"What we've discovered is something entirely different ... with the moon forming out of the molten debris which had been ejected into space. "Pluto and Charon are different—they're smaller ...