Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

Using NASA New Horizons spacecraft data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists created this flyover movie. Canada is about to discover Mark Carney is ...

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show '3 ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

Multiple people familiar with the White House proposal said cuts to NASA's "Science Mission Directorate" could be as high as ...

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 ...