Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

Phase-one metallurgical testing completed in 2024 confirmed the ability to produce high-grade iron-vanadium and titanium-scandium concentrates from Vespa drill core. Test work on both massive and ...

We are not advocates of executing people in cruel and unusual ways here on Futurism, but we have to admit we are intrigued by this astronomer’s proposal of launching bad people into the Sun. Of course ...

Charon is unusual among moons, nearly half the size of Pluto, making their relationship unique in the solar system. New Social Security report raises alarms for 300 million Americans Helen Mirren ...

Giant, ridge-like structures of methane ice, known as "bladed terrain," may be much more abundant along Pluto's equator than previously realized, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Its orbit and size officially qualify it as a distant dwarf planet.

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because of its distance beyond Neptune, is classified as a trans-Neptunian object ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead of a typical planet-moon setup, Pluto and Charon became a binary system.

Imagine Earth Shrinking to the Size of Pluto Consider the astronomical and geological implications of a drastically smaller Earth. Hollywood remembers Catherine O’Hara 7 States tinker with ...