In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

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

Today, I must share a big news from the field of astronomy! The Webb Telescope has recently made a significant discovery by ...

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...

Recently, astronomers revealed a surprising discovery through the latest observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): Pluto's two medium-sized satellites—Nix and Hydra—may be ...

"The surfaces of Nix and Hydra are as close to unaltered as you can get." Two of Pluto's midsize moons may be made of the guts of its largest moon, Charon, new research suggests. New observations with ...

The newly found moon is the 14 th in a system of small moons orbiting Uranus — all of which orbit closer to the planet than its largest moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. “It’s ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her colleagues opted for the name Persephone, after Pluto's wife and "queen of the ...

The trans-Neptunian region, extending beyond Neptune, represents a primordial reservoir of icy and rocky bodies that have remained relatively unchanged since the Solar System’s formation. Central to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest moon—including the presence of previously undetected surface chemicals. This ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a key role in the planet's energy balance.