Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn't stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 years, I received hundreds of suggestions. To the best of my knowledge, not ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto's ...

The team states that each flyby yields new data to understand the extreme energy and temperature ... Canceling this velocity demands more energy than propelling beyond the Kuiper Belt. This is why the ...

New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a ... and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission ...