For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn't completely understand.

Disneyland has launched a new ad campaign celebrating families and guests visiting the Happiest Place on Earth. It invites ...

A meteorite from Mars, the largest piece ever found on Earth, sold for $5.3 million to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday.

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

NASA and USGS are mapping critical minerals in the American West using airborne sensors to help reduce U.S. reliance on ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered a potential dwarf planet, nicknamed Ammonite, orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, challenging the existence of the theorized Planet Nine.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just two stars. An international team was able to determine the location and ...

It was one of the most ambitious missions for NASA since the turn of the century, with photos reshaping what scientists know ...