The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest ...

More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...

Additionally, dedicated observations from the extended New Horizons Kuiper Belt mission have provided detailed insights into the surface geology and impact characteristics of Kuiper Belt Objects ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

The Oort cloud has sent its biggest comet yet towards the inner solar system, and it is travelling at an insane speed, ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is half Pluto’s, ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations ...