NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently came out of hibernation to continue its journey through an unexplored part of the ...
The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in ...
An icy world, perhaps just 300 miles wide and far beyond Pluto, may have air, challenging the assumption that small space objects can't hold onto an atmosphere. This world, known as 2002 XV93, orbits ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression shows (612533) 2002 XV93 passing in front of a background star. - Ko Arimatsu/NAOJ Astronomers have ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This discovery makes Makemake only ...
For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...
Learn how landslides detected on Pluto for the first time reveal the active geologic processes that shape the dwarf planet's surface. Landslides cause a lot of chaos on Earth, as rocks and other ...
In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...
(CNN) — Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of ...