A team of scientists, engineers and others are pushing for a crowdsourced message from humanity to be uploaded aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is 550 million miles from Pluto but was still able to take an image of the Charon, the dwarf planet's largest moon.
Pluto's two smallest moons, discovered in 2012 and 2011, now have official names: Styx and Kerberos.
NASA's Hubble discovered a potential new planet forming 7.5 billion millions from its star, TW Hydrae, in the constellation Hydrae.
Italian archaeologists have reportedly discovered the fabled Gate to Hell, also known as Pluto’s Gate in southwestern Turkey.
New discoveries on the dwarf planet Makemake, Pluto's "sibling," have been found.
Pluto is once again considered the ninth biggest object orbiting the Sun.
The icy planet that lead to Pluto's demoting in our solar system is now identified to be almost identical to the ex-ninth planet.
Five years ago today, Pluto ceased to be a planet, when the International Astronomical Union demoted it to a newly created category of dwarf planet.The decision to redefine the long-known ninth planet of the solar system remains controversial today, with some disagreements among scientists as well as confusion among the public.
Astronomers have found three dwarf planets orbiting the Sun near Pluto, a discovery that proved that Pluto-like bodies existed in a region of space termed as the Kuiper Belt.
Scientists discover fourth moon for Pluto.
Astronomers have discovered a fourth moon orbiting the distant planet of Pluto using the Hubble Space Telescope. The latest discovery has been temporarily designated as P4 and joins the planet's other three satellites; Charon, Nix and Hydra.
A new moon orbiting dwarf planet Pluto was discovered by scientists with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI), hinting at future surprises for the NASA probe.
The distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto has been hiding its fourth moon -- temporarily designated P4 -- that came to the view of NASA astronomers who were using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd, Australia's No. 2 oil and gas producer, said on Tuesday about half of the construction workers for its Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) project have gone on strike over housing issues.