Asteroid "Tedstryk" honors Roane State associate professor, Ted Stryk, for his image work on NASA's Pluto mission, unlocking celestial secrets.

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region thought to be largely devoid of objects ...

Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science ...

JWST finally detects radiation from Pluto that conclusively determines that Pluto's haze indeed impacts its climate.

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...

But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit circumnavigates the sun once every 25,000 years, taking it ...

New research shows there is at least a 40% chance of the existence of Planet Nine, but scientists are still looking for ...

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit beyond Neptune.

Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active ...