The newly released images from a December flyby are so detailed that scientists can see explosions and the flow of solar winds.

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

With summer beginning to wane and the fall semester approaching, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is moving into high gear with 26 different events during August.

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

The post Scientists Might Just Have Discovered Another Dwarf Planet Sibling For Pluto first on TwistedSifter. In 2006, Ceres – located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt – was officially ...