Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet, provisionally named 2017 OF201, located in the remote outskirts of ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled even farther to meet an object called Arrokoth. This mysterious Kuiper Belt object, discovered only after the probe was launched, revealed surprises that ...

On New Year’s Day in 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft radioed to Earth images of the farthest object ever explored: a snowman-shaped primordial object named Arrokoth, one of many frigid ...

Scientists think the Kuiper Belt Object is a sugar world, which would also explain its reddish hue. On New Year’s Day in 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft radioed to Earth images of the ...

Experts in France and the US say a snowman-shaped space rock called Arrokoth, in the outskirts of our solar system beyond Pluto, is covered in sugars. These include glucose and ribose ...

That’s the conclusion according to a new study published May 1 in Icarus, which investigated the mysterious properties of deep-space bodies like the Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth ...

Subscribe now!) Arrokoth is one of thousands of ‘icy worlds” in the Kuiper Belt, or the outer zone of the solar system that lies beyond Neptune. It is the farthest object in space that has ...