Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says Grundy. Or you could visit a local observatory and use one of their ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our moon. Check out these 7 rare photos of Pluto clicked by NASA.

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

The latest images of Pluto, computer reconstructions of multiple images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, show a mottled surface of charcoal, deep orange and white that changes more ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

SMD is also where you’ll find the folks who built the Hubble Space Telescope ... a mission that took nearly 10 years to reach Pluto and is now flying into uncharted space at the edge of the solar ...

From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think back to what you learned about astronomy in elementary school. If you ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.