Science and technological advancement never ceases to amaze us year after year. Well, the group of astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope has brought to light a se ...

New data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has finally given astronomers new clues about how Pluto cools itself.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have peered into a mysterious, blue haze cloaking the surface of Pluto — and ...

The new object, named 2017 OF201, was discovered by researchers in an astronomical ... which he described as an "extreme 'cousin' of Pluto," in a comment on his personal website.

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit beyond Neptune.

Based on the newfound object's trajectory, the scientists estimate its last close pass to the sun was in 1930, the same year Pluto was discovered ... Study in Princeton, New Jersey, said in ...

The discovery also challenges many ... has previously been thought of as fairly empty. NASA's New Horizons probe, which snapped pictures of Pluto and its moons in 2015, has since more than doubled ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets ...