These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

The heart's brightness arises from sunlight reflection, while red patches, formed by tholins, showcase Pluto's atmospheric ...

Some of the most influential voices in planetary science and space-inspired culture will take center stage on Feb. 14 as Lowell Observatory hosts “A Night of Discovery,” the keynote event ...

Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

First detected in 2004, the dwarf planetHaumeaquickly stood out due to its rapid rotation and elongated form. But the 2017 discovery of a ring system around it added a new level of complexity to an ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

The flyby offered a window into Pluto’s geology, atmosphere, and potential habitability, uncovering features like Sputnik Planitia’s convection cells, young cryovolcanoes, and reddish tholin-rich ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

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