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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...

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 TV, the free streaming platform, is launching new snooker channel Pluto Snooker 900. Snooker fans in the UK, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland can tune ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...