Scientists have recently unveiled a remarkable discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system: a space fossil located 4 billion miles past Pluto, covered in unidentified organic molecules. This ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped like a bowling pin.

Beyond Pluto lies a collection of frozen worlds that challenge traditional ideas of what planets should be. This episode explores distant dwarf planets with strange shapes, hidden moons, and extreme ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Solar System contains many small, unexplored worlds in a vast region of space beyond Neptune and Pluto. Recent discoveries include dwarf ...