West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbled in high-resolution footage captured by the Gemini North telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Glowing pieces of the comet are visible in the 8.1-meter diameter ...

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 ...

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

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

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

The NASA spacecraft set to take Americans on a journey around the moon, as part of the agency's Artemis II mission, reached ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Young high school journalists opened the 2026 edition of the Cleveland Media Academy by hearing a talk by cleveland.com columnist Terry Pluto. Pluto addressed the group of about 40 ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Backed with $8.6 million in seed funding, New York-based Pluto Financial Technologies has launched an AI-powered lending platform for private markets. The platform is designed to enable investors in ...