Could the chemical debris of a shattered world hold clues to life elsewhere in the universe? Astronomers studying the white ...

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

As MLB officially adopts automated ball-strike challenges for 2025, Terry Pluto predicts a revolution in how fans and media ...

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But although it was initially classified as a comet from another star system, it ...

Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a distant dwarf planet candidate located about 90 times farther from the Sun than ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent groundbreaking study has revealed that it may have had an extraordinarily fiery ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...

On Sept. 24, Mars will square Pluto retrograde, triggering intensity and upheaval within community spaces. Discover what this ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...