NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

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

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

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

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

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...

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

Because Charon is just over half the size of Pluto, the two bodies then began orbiting each other in a cosmic dance in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. However, a recent study in Nature ...

Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...