Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a miniature planet that is the most distant body ever found in the solar system, scientists said on Wednesday. "We can't really classify the object yet, ...

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The rare encounter revealed a distant world with giant ice sheets, mountains, valleys, and terrains unlike any other seen in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently came out of hibernation to continue its journey through an unexplored part of the ...

Evidence for landslides down steep crater walls on Pluto have been found in imagery from NASA's New Horizons mission.

Labroots recently explored Saturn’s sponge-like moon, Hyperion, with its deep craters and non-spherical shape. This moon is an example of how the Universe and the laws of astrophysics work in both ...

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists —... Pluto isn't a planet — but it gives us clues for how the ...