From planet to dwarf planet and beyond 🌌 Neil deGrasse Tyson tells the story of Pluto, explaining the science, the debate, ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto is a complex and mysterious world with mountains, valleys, plains, craters, and glaciers. Here are ...

Pluto's icy mountains have caught the fancy of star gazers and cosmos geeks. But a question soon arose: "Is this made by AI?" ...

Discover the epic 9-year journey of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it races through the solar system to uncover Pluto’s ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf star outside our Solar System. In our Solar System, ...