Of the five dwarf planets in the Solar System – including Eris, Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea – Pluto is easily the best-known ...

Lecturer, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology By analyzing the movements of ...

On Tuesday, November 19, 2024, Pluto, our petit power planet of death, reckoning, descent, and dissent, is moving into the ...

Chiefly, the finding could help explain why Pluto, the largest known object in the Kuiper Belt — a vast region of icy bodies ...

Ever since Pluto was demoted from planet status, astronomers believe a real Planet Nine exists in the solar system ...

Australia's Woodside Energy shut down its Pluto LNG processing plant on Monday due to a fault in the facility's control ...

and Vesta as full-fledged members of our planetary system. Today, when tens of thousands of minor planets have been discovered (most residing in an "asteroid belt" between Mars and Pluto), not ...

There are practical and sentimental reasons for that—Pluto has tantalizing mysteries to unlock that New Horizons, the most recent spacecraft to visit the system, only added to. To research those ...

Pluto is now confirmed to be the largest object in the so-called Kuiper Belt, considered the third zone of the solar system after the inner rocky planets and outer gaseous ones.

After passing Pluto, the craft will continue into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Scientists suspect there may be yet more moons around Pluto, some perhaps sharing or swapping orbits and ...

The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped region around the distant outer solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune that’s thought to be populated by icy objects and comets. Pluto is 40 times further from ...

and is intended to highlight similarities between the Pluto and Jupiter systems when adjusted for size. Approaching the system, the outermost moon is Hydra, seen in the bottom left corner.