Pluto and Charon don’t behave like a typical planet and moon system. Instead of Charon orbiting inside Pluto’s body, both objects orbit a point in space between them called the barycenter. That’s why ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

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A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Pluto, once considered the ninth planet, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 because it shares its orbital path with other objects. Despite its demotion, this distant world continues to ...

Did you know that seven planets are set to go into retrograde this year? Find out more about all the upcoming retrogrades of ...

We know what will happen to the Sun and our Solar System because we can look outward into the galaxy and examine older ...

Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the ...

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West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory who had a key role in the development of GPS, was almost 90 before ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...