Pluto pulled Adeene Denton into its orbit during her undergraduate internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. It was summer 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

There was a time when our solar system had nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. In February 1930, Clyde Tombaugh of the Lowell Observatory in the ...

Pluto, that cosmic oddball at the far reaches of our solar system, may have three moons instead of one, scientists say. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope glimpsed the two new satellites ...

A wage dispute between unions and contractor Bechtel threatens to delay Woodside's nearly completed Pluto 2 LNG expansion ...

Even as scientists are arguing over the "plutoid" designation, with some saying they will not use the term; educators are already latching onto it. NEW YORK: Pluto was once a planet. Then, a dwarf ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Space. Followed categories will be added to My News. Space exploration is ramping up: 2014 was the year we landed on a comet and found a host of new worlds ...

Astronomers are cosily familiar with stars quadrillions of miles from the earth, and with galaxies much more distant. But Pluto, a member of the sun’s own planetary family, and only 3½ billion miles ...

Pluto Pets ( the science-driven pet longevity startup officially launches its groundbreaking AI-powered platform featuring a ...