These surprising effects, detected in observations from the James Webb Space Telescope , include a cold spot in Jupiter's atmosphere, and a rapid increase in the density of charge ...

March's third, or final quarter moon phase will occur at 5:39 a.m. EDT (0939 GMT), as the moon appears in Earth's sky with its left half illuminated by direct sunlight and its rig ...

On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, making it the first to pass over mainland Europe since 1999. Our stories cover all you need to know ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was discovered. They celebrate scientific discovery, history and our solar system’s ...

Why does Pluto's orbit take so long? Pluto's orbit is not like those of the eight major planets, which are relatively circular. Instead, it is highly elliptical and tilted. At tim ...

Pluto has not completed a single orbit since its 1930 discovery. With a 248-year journey around the Sun, the dwarf planet will finish its first full circuit in 2178.

Pluto will complete its first orbit since 1930 in 2178, a historic 248-year space journey that spans generations of humans.

Maeve Bidonde, Arts Editor Every Sunday in the planetarium tucked away in the basement of Perna Science, the Nebula Society, which is “a club for students by students,”  puts on a show to teach ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been gazing at signals that left the solar system before many of today's graduate students were even born ...

Pluto may no longer be classified as a planet, but in Flagstaff, its legacy still shines. Scientists, artists and community ...

An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...

NASA’sNew Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix. These ice peaks, some rising as high as 11,000 feet, are made of pure water ...