Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

The new findings point to evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto. The news of interest since it indicates that the distant dwarf planet has a far more dynamic planetary ecosystem than previously ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Unlike typical comets, ‘Oumuamua lacks rock or carbon-rich material. It is also much more elongated than other comets. It ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Oumuamua, the first interstellar object detected in 2017, is most likely a fragment of a Pluto-like body. Scientists believe it was flung out of the solar system billions of years ago during its ...

(UPDATE: July 6: Good news! The mission will return to normal science operations July 7 - more details below.) For and hour and 20 minutes on the 4th of July, NASA lost touch with its New Horizons ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

The Big Bang may have spawned these theoretical black holes, whose lives are thought to end in a burst of extremely energetic particles.