When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth ...

"My colleagues and I were over the moon when we were invited to participate in an international mission funded by Nasa." ...

Analysis - When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun's ninth planet, many astronomers and non-experts alike were shocked.

More than 18 years after launch and nine years after its historic exploration of Pluto, New Horizons is more than ... scattered Milky Way light in the COB images—a technique that was not ...

The 11 objects discovered could be a new class of objects orbiting in a “ring” in the distant reaches of the solar system.

Despite its demotion, many in Streator and around the world still believe Pluto should be considered a planet, along with the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 2015, has offered the best-yet estimates of how dark deep space truly ...

New Horizons, however, zoomed past Pluto in July 2015 on its one-way trek ... While analyzing the probe's images, Lauer and his colleagues deducted light generated by dust in the halo that the ...

The results are in line with theory — but the key to an accurate measurement was understanding how dusty the galaxy is.

In a recent update Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of frozen nitrogen glaciers on Pluto carrying numerous 'floating' hills that may be fragments of water ice. These hills ...

Now, scientists have measured the true darkness of the Universe, by taking the most precise measurements yet of the faint ...