In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her ...

Pluto, once considered the ninth planet, remains one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system. Its icy surface and ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

You might be thinking about a giant trilobite found on Pluto, or maybe a dinosaur skeleton on the planet. However, when ...

David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues studied images from ground-based and ...

In their report, Lal and Myers estimate it would cost about $800 million annually for five years to build and deploy a ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy proposes that the Sun and planets entered a compact interstellar gas cloud, part of the Local Ribbon of Cold Clouds, with particle densities more than 1,000 times ...

As the Solar System drifts through the Milky Way, it occasionally encounters regions of space capable of reshaping Earth’s ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up in August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — The Perseid meteor shower is peaking Wednesday night and it can bring up to 75 shooting stars an ...

The Headlands International Dark Sky Park was recognized by DarkSky International in 2011, making it one of the first 10 ...

Every August, humanity has a rendezvous with the cosmos. It is an ancient tradition, almost a rite of summer, to go out under the cover of night and wait for a "shooting star". The highest peak of the ...