On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an ...

On Aug. 30, 1992, astronomers spotted an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time. Before then, Pluto was believed to be the most distant planetary body of our solar system. No one ...

This spacecraft is quite remarkable, having recently completed a deep space stellar navigation test. You might wonder, what ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

A study suggests an Earth-sized planet, dubbed Planet Y, may exist beyond Neptune, affecting the orbits of icy objects in the ...

Two of Pluto's midsize moons may be made of the guts of its largest moon, Charon, new research suggests.

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

China has recently unveiled its plan to initiate an experimental verification project to demonstrate and test the ...