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

The Trump administration has released its final budget proposal and in response, many have expressed concernthat it will ...

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 ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) presents an unprecedented opportunity to advance the search for astrobiologically relevant data across diverse astronomical ...

NASA’s New Horizons flyby of Arrokoth in 2019 revealed a pristine, contact-binary KBO resembling a cosmic snowman, confirming that gentle mergers built many of these remote bodies. When the ...

The Altjira system is part of the same family of KBOs as another object named Arrokoth. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft visited Arrokoth in 2019, revealing its peanut-like shape. That shape told ...

The Kuiper belt is also a prime target for space missions. New Horizons, after its flyby of Pluto in 2015, explored another object in this region, Arrokoth, in 2019. How do we detect a distant planet?

Another target was the Kuiper Belt and, specifically, an object called Arrokoth. NASA says Arrokoth is the most distant object that a human-made craft has explored up close. Along the way ...