If it does survive the trek into interstellar space, it won't be the first to get there. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both ...

In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the ...

New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope detected traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon.

Now, thanks to data from NASA's New Horizons probe, they have arrived at the best-yet estimate of how dark — or rather, bright — deep space is: 100 billion times dimmer than the sunlight we ...

Previous research, including a flyby from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, revealed that the moon's surface was coated by water ice. But scientists couldn't sense chemicals lurking at ...

Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny ...

It's a deceptively simple question that has puzzled astronomers since the 1960s. Now, thanks to data from NASA's New Horizons probe, they have arrived at the best-yet estimate of how dark — or rather, ...

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first ...

Both Pluto and Charon are more than three billion miles from the sun. Nasa’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues ...