Eons ago, in the frigid depths of our solar system, a dramatic collision ... particularly about Pluto and its largest moon ...

"It's half Pluto's size and 12% of its mass, which makes it much more similar to the Earth's moon than any other moon in the ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

Using data collected by the spacecraft’s LEISA spectral imager, researchers are uncovering the true nature of Nix’s surface coarse, pure water ice that behaves like rock due to the extreme cold of ...

The last thing, perhaps, astronomers expected to find was a six-mile deep canyon at the edge of the Solar System. But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological ...

IMAGINE your home was powered by the dirt in your back garden. Well, that could be a reality for future lunar astronauts.

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our solar system. The moon is probably even older than assumed and was carved ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.