New Horizons’ data will enable entire textbooks to be written about the mysterious celestial body. Already, the pioneering NASA mission has confirmed the existence of a polar ice cap on Pluto ...

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the smallest of the nine classical planets and the largest ...

What did NASA’s New Horizons find when it reached Pluto? The results shocked astronomers: Pluto wasn’t a lifeless rock - it was geologically active, covered in glaciers, and had a hidden underground ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

Legendary actor William Shatner wants President Trump to restore Pluto to greatness as scientists claim to have found a “new” ...

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the October 14, 2024, launch. Scheduled to arrive in the ...

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Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...