After passing Pluto, the craft will continue into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Scientists suspect there may be yet more moons around Pluto, some perhaps sharing or swapping orbits and ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

When astronomers realized that Ceres had many "relatives" in roughly the same region of the solar system ... Pluto fans thought it was pretty cool to be the first and defining member of a whole ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish territory ... matching its real average distance of 778 million kilometers. Even ...

And so the whole thing was kind of weird to start ... NASA said it’s the largest known glacier in our solar system. Images of Pluto’s icy heart have appeared on screensavers and T-shirts ...

Bob Blum, Rubin's director of operations, says the observatory will survey almost the entire southern sky every night ... Can ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...

The solar system is dominated by the Sun, which accounts for almost 99.9% of the matter of the whole system ... were nine planets in the solar system. Pluto was the farthest planet from the ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

Using data collected by the spacecraft’s LEISA spectral imager, researchers are uncovering the true nature of Nix’s surface coarse, pure water ice that behaves like rock due to the extreme cold of ...