The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...

This 2015 NASA image of Pluto combines blue, red and infrared images. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to one of dozens of dwarf planets. After its discovery in 1930 ...

New data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has finally given astronomers new clues about how Pluto cools itself.

"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become a staple of astronomy ...

New research published by Michigan State University astrophysicists could help scientists answer a century-old question: Where did galactic cosmic rays come from? Astronomers have conducted very ...

June 2, 2025 — Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ...