A roundup of the day’s news including local astronomers working with Nasa to find out more about dwarf planet Pluto.

If you are going to look for intelligent life beyond Earth, there are few better candidates than the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

Starting Saturday, more than 200 new laws will take effect in Arizona. Here’s a breakdown of seven laws about topics from ...

Starstruck Billions of years ago, our Solar System may have had an incredibly close encounter with another passing star. As ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson shared exclusively with PEOPLE at the 'Speak No Evil' premiere that former elementary school students are still 'angry' at him as adults for his role in determining what ...

Interplanetary travel is the focus of the first concert of the Aiken Symphony’s 2024-25 season. Set for Friday, Sept. 20, the ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long puzzled scientists about its origins. With ...