The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

151; -- Pluto's moon Charon may be the "Hulk" of the solar system. New images from NASA's New Horizons ... The space agency compared the expansion to the same way that scientist Bruce Banner ...

With fewer than 500,000 miles and less than a day to go until the NASA spacecraft whizzes by Pluto, the images it’s lobbing back across the roughly 3-billion-mile distance between Earth and ...

Pluto satisfies the first two of these criteria, but not the third. Even one of its own moons, Charon, is about half of Pluto's size ... When compared with past images, pictures of Pluto taken ...

"When will you see photos from the flyby? It takes four hours for the probe to get a signal back to Earth, and then NASA ... settled one debate about Pluto -- its size. Information gathered ...

Captured through the lens of a Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), Pluto ... satellite images. This "far away from home" view is from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. Earth’s reflection ...

A ground-based telescope has snapped the sharpest image ... Earth-size planets," study leader Steve Howell of the NASA Ames Research Center in California said in a statement. Additionally, Pluto ...

According to NASA, the spacecraft the size of a baby ... the best picture yet of Pluto, taken on the eve of the flyby. Even better images will start "raining" down on Earth beginning Wednesday ...