Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Pluto imparted a slight but measurable alteration to the New Horizons spacecraft's trajectory (both bending and acceleration) during its 2015 flyby. The minimal nature of this trajectory change was ...

Pluto is more than a distant dot in the sky it is a frozen frontier billions of kilometers away that no human has ever visited Discover the daring plans that nearly sent spacecraft to the ninth planet ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.

According to Princeton researchers, the classical belt's structure should be understood as consisting of three major ...

For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

As one of the biggest and oldest manufacturers of large airframes, it's hard to ignore when Boeing occasionally comes out ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the far outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what looks like a hidden “structure” ...

Io, moon of Jespiter Jupiter, is famously volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, over an area the size of Asia. Some of the volcanic mountains are taller than Mount Everest. The ...

There’s a place in Northern California where the mountain doesn’t just dominate the landscape – it commands your soul. Mount Shasta rises 14,179 feet above sea level, a solitary giant that seems to ...