On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries ...

Not long before coming to work at the observatory, Tombaugh had built his own telescope ... to keep its planetary status and you would have to confer the same honor on Eris, a Kuiper Belt object ...