Pluto receives enough sunlight to be about as bright as midday on Earth during specific times, despite being a dwarf planet 7.5 billion km away.

For generations Pluto stood as the mythic ninth planet until a scientific revolution shattered that legacy and transformed it ...

"The Pluto flyby happened, and I was in the right place at the right time - perfectly positioned to fall in love with it," ...

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

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define solar objects.

A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

Columnist John Breunig fills a time capsule with moments from the opening of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center's new ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

After trading Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, the Browns now rely exclusively on rookies at QB. It all reminds Pluto of another ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, confirmed a colossal coronal mass ejection from a distant star, a blast so powerful it ...

The Browns have a 5-21 record since opening day of 2024. They have scored more than 17 points only five times in that span.

Imaging shows NGC 6789 building stars in near-total isolation, pushing scientists to rethink gas supply and formation in ...