Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...

Imagine setting off on a road trip that doesn’t just take you through charming towns, but through an entire solar system – ...

In 2006, almost a decade after Tombaugh's death, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. The New Horizons mission carries some of Tombaugh's ashes on board as it ...

New theory explains Pluto’s moon Charon’s formation "Kiss-and-capture" collision occurred in Kuiper Belt Charon's formation could reshape moon theories ...

The findings, according to the study, may also shed light on how other large moons in the Kuiper Belt, such as those of Eris and Orcus, could have formed through similar processes. The research team ...

January 5, 2005, is an astronomical anniversary that is not really marked but should be. It saw the discovery of dwarf planet Eris and how those very observations led to a new way to describe the ...

On this date, Jan. 6, 1969, the Soviet Union launched the Venera 5 spacecraft, which was part of an ongoing mission to explore Earth’s sister planet, Venus. Venera 5 successfully entered Venus ...

It saw the discovery of dwarf planet Eris and how those very observations led to a new way to describe the Solar System and heralded the eventual change of Pluto’s planetary status. On that ...

The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was still a planet, too) could snare a moon that is around half its size. The team behind this research thinks that two frigid ...