Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that ... The Altjira system joins the dwarf planet Pluto and the "space snowman" Arrokoth, a contact binary ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

The largest KBO is dwarf planet Pluto. The Hubble finding is crucial support ... NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is also joining in on the study of Altjira as it will check if the components ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images to show a bright expanse on Pluto ... also from the Hubble Space Telescope, the James ...

Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation theories.

After 17 years of observation, researchers are certain that what they thought was a group of two celestial bodies is actually ...

He bought powerful new telescopes and an astrograph — a telescope ... of Pluto is so small — that Charon doesn’t actually orbit the dwarf planet. Instead, both orbit a fixed place in space ...