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 ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover two groundbreaking findings: strong evidence of a ...

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

Scientists say the findings help explain how life can exist in extreme environments using the chemical compound methane ...

Scientists studying the cosmos often speculate about hypothetical forces that might explain peculiar data or results. For instance, some astronomers have suggested that our solar system has an extra ...

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 ...

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

Scientists studying the cosmos often speculate about hypothetical forces that might explain peculiar data or results. For instance, some astronomers have suggested that our solar system has an extra ...

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