NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has released its most complete view of ...

Over billions of years, a planet will have encountered all the small bodies in its vicinity enough times to clear its orbit of them.

Full spoilers follow for For All Mankind Season 5, Episode 8, which is streaming on Apple TV now. It’s kind of late in the ...

For decades, scientists and the general public have argued over the astronomical status of beloved dwarf planet Pluto. In the latest salvo, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that he was “very ...

"Make Pluto a planet again," NASA administrator Jared Issaacman said in a Senate hearing last Tuesday. And lo, the Internet did rejoice. Two decades on from its original declassification as a ...

It's been 20 years since Pluto lost its status as the ninth planet of the solar system, but we still can't seem to let it go. Reading time 3 minutes Pluto remains one of the great generational divides ...

Many of us are old enough to have grown up with the idea of nine planets orbiting the Sun. In 2006, however, a controversial decision in the astronomy community resulted in the official list being cut ...

If you grew up memorising the solar system, chances are you learned there were nine planets with Pluto proudly bringing up the rear. Then, almost overnight, textbooks changed. Pluto was out, and the ...

The live event will take audiences on an extraordinary journey through a century of exploration and discovery in the natural world, seen through the prism of David’s remarkable life and work To mark ...