Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guests visting the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona during the I Heart Pluto Festival gaze at celestial objects from the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected anunexplained infrared absorption signal, appearing as a distinct spectral ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study has identified a very specific wavelength of light missing from both Pluto and ...

In two weeks, NASA’s New Horizons mission will fly by Pluto, after spending nearly a decade in space. Pluto, as you may recall, was stripped of its planetary title back in 2005, for reasons that some ...

For years, astronomers have suspected that something massive may be lurking in the dark reaches of our Solar System beyond ...

Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated his support for President Trump to take action to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Pluto has five moons, but Charon stands out from the rest. Charon is ...

For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the ...