Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

First, let’s compare the orbital characteristics of Pluto with those of other planets. Pluto has an orbital eccentricity (the degree to which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle) of 0.25, while ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

Dog spends days digging large hole, then owner suddenly realizes why A Spelunker Thought She Found Trash in a Cave. It Was ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

The astronomical phenomenon of Pluto's opposition reoccurred on the 25th, providing astronomy enthusiasts with the best opportunity to observe this distant celestial body throughout the year. During ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white ...