When New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015, NASA expected a cold, cratered fossil at the edge of the solar system. Instead it revealed a world that looked alive - jagged mountains of water ice, a thin ...

Journey beyond Neptune to uncover the frozen, mysterious worlds that challenge everything we thought we knew about the solar system. From Pluto to Haumea and Makemake, these distant dwarf planets ...

Pluto pulled Adeene Denton into its orbit during her undergraduate internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. It was summer 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Major League Baseball in 2026 will introduce a system that won’t just change how games are called – it also will fundamentally transform how umpires are evaluated, discussed, and ...

At the vast edge of the solar system, in the mysterious and cold region of the Kuiper Belt, Pluto, once classified as the ninth planet, is now categorized as a dwarf planet but continues to capture ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Why did the Cavs trade Isaac Okoro for Chicago’s Lonzo Ball? From a basketball perspective, it makes sense. Ball isn’t the same player who was the No. 2 pick in the 2017 draft. He ...

In 2006, updated research led to Pluto being controversially demoted to dwarf planet status by the International Astronomical Union. The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung ...

It’s possible the trans-Neptunian object, dubbed 2017 OF201, is large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, making it an “extreme ‘cousin’ of Pluto,” according to Institute for Advanced Study postdoc ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...