This week’s hype around a “city-killing” asteroid possibly striking Earth raised the fears of many before the odds of impact ...

An amateur astronomer discovered Pluto 95 years ago today. The former planet will complete an orbit in another 153 years.

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

The cost of cable continues to rise, but streaming services aren't getting much cheaper, either. Before you pony up even more cash to subscribe to yet another platform, stop and consider all of ...

6, 2006, Pluto and the others were formally recategorized ... Its highly eccentric orbit carries it around the Sun every 559 years, bringing it as close as 37.9 AU (3.5 billion miles [5.6 billion ...

These are bodies of ice and rock that orbit the sun well past Neptune and Pluto, and they’re large, all more than 1,000 kilometers wide. In fact, with a width of more than 2,300 km, Eris rivals ...

The researchers also simulated the collision of Orcus and Vanth, another pair of co-orbiting icy objects out beyond Neptune’s orbit with a mass ratio similar to that of Pluto and Charon.

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched a second-generation navigation satellite, NVS-02, into a geosynchronous transfer orbit using a GSLV rocket in its 100th launch from ...

Most moons orbit their planets, but Pluto and Charon are different—they revolve around a point in space between them! 🔄 Why does this happen, and what did NASA’s New Horizons mission reveal ...