Every year, the Lowell Observatory hosts the I Heart Pluto Festival to celebrate the discovery and significance of the King of the Kuiper Belt. This event brings together scientists, space ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

The 95 years since then have been ones of changing fortune for little Pluto. For decades after the first eight planets were barnstormed, orbited, and landed upon by spacecraft from Earth ...

open image in gallery Analysis of data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped shed light on the ancient surfaces of trans-Neptunian objects like Pluto. Scientists confirmed what they ...

"Pluto is a complex and mysterious world with mountains, valleys, plains, craters, and glaciers. It is located in the distant Kuiper Belt," the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! He called this hypothetical world "Planet X." "In some ways, Pluto's more of a planet than some of the ...

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