A road trip to Pluto is not something you want to try with kids — the asteroid belt is nothing but tourist traps, and the rest stops really thin... We don't make very good judges of distance, not on ...

This is a guest post by David Hambling, a freelance journalist and author based in South London, specialising in science, technology and strange phenomena. Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space ...

Is Pluto a planet? The Dr. Universe crew at WSU answers that question. The Dr. Universe crew at Washington State University aims to answer your science questions. This time Dr. U answers a popular ...

New research has shed light on how Pluto’s famous heart-shaped plane of frozen nitrogen creates winds in the dwarf planet’s thin atmosphere, that lead to vast discolorations on its bright surface. The ...

CHAMPAIGN — Described by his mother as a "complete planet enthusiast," Fletcher Hannah celebrated his 10th birthday last month at Staerkel Planetarium. On Tuesday evening, he, mom and his older ...

Planets are defined as big balls of rock or gas that orbit around the Sun, so should Pluto still be classified as a planet? Debate over Pluto continued at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ...

As New Horizons completes its journey to the far reaches of the solar system, NPR takes a look at just how long it takes to get to Pluto. So how will New Horizons impact your life? Well, the next time ...

We don't make very good judges of distance, not on cosmic scales at least. Using our own wanderings on Earth as the judge of all things, evolution has left us poorly prepared for the epic scales of ...