Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature Geoscience,” describes how the minuscule dwarf ...

We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Planet X, a hidden giant seven times Earth’s mass, challenges astronomers with its faint light and distant orbit, potentially ...

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...