NASA’s New Horizons mission gave humanity its first detailed look at Pluto before continuing billions of miles deeper into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new dwarf ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...

Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the edge of our solar system. So many unexplored secrets still lie at the ...

Mr. Isaacman wants Pluto restored to its honored status as a planet. Apparently that’s what he remembers about it from grade school science. In the featured image above, you can see Pluto over there ...

Nearly eight years after its historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons probe is getting ready for another round of observations made from the icy edge of the solar system—and this time, its field of ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...