Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two NASA spacecraft have teamed up to capture direct images of Uranus. The Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons Pluto probe ...

On October 4, 1990, the recently launched Hubble Space Telescope set its sights on Pluto, which was still considered a planet at the time. To capture an image of the distant object, astronomers used ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a white dwarf star consuming the remnants of a Pluto-like object - a scenario that may predict what will happen to planets in our own ...

This composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, at the center. Pluto's four smaller moons orbit this 'binary planet' and can be seen to the right and ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

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A new analysis of New Horizon images of the Sputnik Planitia, a section of Pluto’s massive, heart-shaped glacier, suggests that liquid nitrogen once existed on the dwarf planet’s surface. The study, ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto reigned as the ninth planet for 76 years — now, 20 years after its demotion, the debate still rages ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a chaotic dance going on at the far end of our solar system, involving Pluto and five of its closest friends, a new study finds. Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto, its ...

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In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...