This one did. The object, hurtling by Pluto at breathtaking speed, was unlike anything encountered in recent surveys, and within mere hours, telescopes ranging from Hawaii to Chile were pointing their ...
Pluto’s thin, blue haze glows in this image from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. Though the dwarf planet is just a faint speck through a telescope, opposition this month offers skywatchers their best ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's rendering of a white dwarf devouring a Pluto-like body. | Credit: NASA, Tim Pyle ...
Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active ...
Pluto may not be a planet, yet it contains something extraordinary: NASA finds water “and then some”
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 ...
Several planets, including Mercury, Mars, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter, are visible this month. Saturn's moon Titan will cast its shadow on Saturn twice during July. Neptune will be ...
NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a white dwarf star consuming the remnants of a Pluto-like object - a scenario that may predict what will happen to planets in our own ...
A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle. Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, has ...
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