Could the chemical debris of a shattered world hold clues to life elsewhere in the universe? Astronomers studying the white ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a ...

Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto’s surface than previously thought. This false-color image, derived from observations in infrared light by the ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly ...

In 2015, after flying for 9 years and covering nearly 5 billion kilometers, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully flew ...

During observations of Pluto, an astonishing discovery gradually emerged—there seems to be ice volcanoes on Pluto. This ...

After years of research, scientists now hypothesize that giant dome-like formations that were first photographed by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 were recently active icy volcanoes, also ...

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But although it was initially classified as a comet from another star system, it ...

Massive ice volcanoes found on the former planet Pluto hint at the possibility of liquid water located deep beneath its surface. The volcanoes, multiple miles high, have resurfaced large areas of ...

Giant ice volcanos were active ‘relatively recently’ on Pluto, altering its surface, scientists say. Images taken of Pluto reveal a region of strange terrain previously unobserved in our solar system, ...