When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a ...

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 ...

It started, as many cosmic enigmas do, with a dim dot of light on a Hubble Space Telescope photo the sort that professional ...

KENNDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, USA, August 21, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- NASA's highly successful New Horizons mission, which was the first and only planned spacecraft ...

Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed Planet Y. The planet has not been detected but merely inferred by the tilted orbits of some distant ...

As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and ...

A new study from BYU professor of physics and astronomy Darin Ragozzine and former undergraduate student Maia Nelsen provides new insight into the structure of objects in the Kuiper Belt. Using data ...

The spacecraft has finally caught sight of its next scientific quarry: the most distant planetary body humanity has ever explored. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...