Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic ...

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 ...

The historic Lowell Observatory announced this week that it will drastically reduce internally funded research and shrink its ...

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.

It's going on two years since the International Astronomical Union rewrote its definition of a planet and busted Pluto down to something it called a "dwarf planet." But it's not a done deal, says Mark ...

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

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian apparently thinks the 1969 moon landing was fake. If Feedback comes up with an equally ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

In a remarkable fusion of entertainment and intellectual inquiry, the legendary William Shatner, famed for his portrayal of Captain Kirk in "Star Trek," has joined forces with esteemed astrophysicist ...