JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...

Discovered in 1930 after a nearly year-long telescopic search by a young observatory assistant named Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto is so faint and so distant—its 248-year orbit averages 3.7 billion ...

How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

What did NASA’s New Horizons find when it reached Pluto? The results shocked astronomers: Pluto wasn’t a lifeless rock - it was geologically active, covered in glaciers, and had a hidden underground ...

Named after Dr. Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer who discovered conclusive evidence for the existence of dark matter, this ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

Humanity is fascinated by the mysteries of the universe. Astrophysics is the field of study where astronomers use physics to ...

Asteroid "Tedstryk" honors Roane State associate professor, Ted Stryk, for his image work on NASA's Pluto mission, unlocking celestial secrets.