Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.

Comets are fascinating celestial objects composed of ice, dust, and rocky materials. They originate from the outer regions of our solar system, often from the Oort Cloud, which lies far beyond the ...

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

As a forensic psychiatrist who testifies in court about the research-proven harm of solitary confinement, and a law professor ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

It started, as many cosmic enigmas do, with a dim dot of light on a Hubble Space Telescope photo the sort that professional ...

Today’s vibes are anything but subtle. The Sun in Libra is trining Pluto in Aquarius, and the planet of transformation is rousing us to open our minds to new ways of being. Mars in Scorpio ...

It will be a while before you can see it for yourself, however. Halley’s comet was last visible from Earth in 1986, meaning ...

Mistakes aren’t always bad. Lovely Venus enters its home sign of balanced Libra at 5:19 pm EDT, encouraging us to be ...

Late October offers a meteor shower generated by Haley's Comet plus a once in a lifetime comet that streaks by Earth every ...

That led some scientists to speculate about exotic compositions, like the nitrogen ice present on the surface of Pluto. In research on ‘Oumuamua, Steven Desch at Arizona State University determined, ...