Pluto receives enough sunlight to be about as bright as midday on Earth during specific times, despite being a dwarf planet 7 ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. - NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have detected ...

As New Horizons passed Pluto in July 2015, did the dwarf planet alter the probe's trajectory? Douglas KaupaCouncil Bluffs, ...

Full Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNO079G1i8 Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday ...

Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of Saturn and other icy bodies in the solar system.

A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered trans-Neptunian object 2017 OF201. The TNO is potentially large enough to ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

Clyde Tombaugh noticed a speck of light that was Pluto in 1930. — -- Clyde Tombaugh is finally getting to visit the speck of light he spotted at the edge of the solar system in 1930. New Horizons ...

Scientists have detected methane gas glowing faintly above Makemake, an icy dwarf planet smaller and farther than Pluto in space. Until now, Pluto was the only object that far out in the solar system ...