Once considered a planet, Pluto has since been “demoted” by the scientific community and is now considered a dwarf planet. Now, despite nobody really asking him to, NASA boss Jim Bridenstine ...

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. A century from now, NASA’s successful flyby of Pluto and its five known natural satellites will rank right up there with the ...

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according to Space ...

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun's ninth ...

Although previous images showed that something was happening on Pluto, with an average temperature of -240C, many people assumed it was a cold and relatively dead world. That was until NASA's 'New ...

Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto all have quasi-moons which will eventually change ... as illustrated in this artist ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 2015, has offered the best-yet estimates of how dark deep space truly ...

Guitar player and astrophysicist Dr. Brian May talks with Amy Shira Teitel about the first stereoscopic image of Pluto, ...

Their work could change the way we view and study the elusive outer solar system. The Kuiper Belt is an icy, ring-shaped ...

Pluto was anyone's guess as a distant world, until NASA's mission came to photograph and record it (REUTERS/NASA/JHUAPL) The research team also noted that the area has no impact craters ...

"My colleagues and I were over the moon when we were invited to participate in an international mission funded by Nasa." ...

During an equinox, places around the globe experience nearly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime. The second occurrence ...