One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

What is currently known about Pluto could probably fit on a few index cards, Stern has said. New Horizons’ data will enable entire textbooks to be written about the mysterious celestial body.

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 ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

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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” ...

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

The International Astronomical Union, which reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006, is the arbiter of such ...

Legendary actor William Shatner wants President Trump to restore Pluto to greatness as scientists claim to have found a “new” ninth planet. “So there’s a 10th planet that was found in our ...

Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification ... his followers. Using his new username "Kekius Maximus," Musk responded ...