In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that one trip around the Sun takes more than 11,000 years. For much of that time ...

In a groundbreaking study recently published on the arXiv preprint server, researchers have proposed two innovative ...

In the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, lies Sedna, one of the most mysterious objects ever ...

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

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape our understanding of distant icy worlds—and even hint at how Earth once ...

Ask Lowell Observatory Director Jeffrey Hall how he feels about the visit to Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and he literally shivers with excitement. “I can’t even think about it ...

But the whole flyby, when New Horizons gets a close look at Pluto and its moons, lasts for hours. In fact, the spacecraft went silent at a few minutes before midnight on July 13.

Not only is there a lot to examine in more detail, but we only really know half the story because the New Horizons flyby lasted just a few hours. Since Pluto takes 6.4 Earth days to rotate, ...

New Horizons’ nine-day flyby sequence culminated with its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, when it followed a trajectory carefully plotted by Yanping Guo, a mission design specialist ...

One year after Pluto flyby, New Horizons mission looks back and looks ahead. by Alan Boyle on July 14, 2016 at 2:12 pm July 14, 2016 at 2:13 pm ...

One year ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto and forever changed how we think about this frozen world.. After more than nine years and three billion miles of traveling ...