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, ...

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

Pluto and Charon are in a region of the outer solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper belt, which makes them both rocky ...

Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...

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.

For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...

Charon, the largest and most well-studied of Pluto's five moons, was first visited in 2015 as part of the groundbreaking New ...

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 ...