As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region thought to be largely devoid of objects ...

With Pluto spending 20 years of its 248-year orbit within the orbit of Neptune, you might expect that at some point, the two worlds could catastrophically collide. However, Pluto and Neptune never ...

Looking at a solar system diagram on paper, it appears the Pluto and Neptune orbits intersect. Of course, this is not the case. The orbits appear to intersect only because it’s a flat projection ...

Today, we crossed the orbit of Neptune, outbound for Pluto to make a little history." William Harwood. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, ...

Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science ...

With Pluto spending 20 years of its 248-year orbit within the orbit of Neptune, you might expect that at some point, the two worlds could catastrophically collide. However, Pluto and Neptune never ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system.. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Neptune, Pluto. Pluto was last and least of them. An icy dwarf only half the size of the United States, it was on average 3.7 billion miles from the sun. It also has a decidedly strange orbit that ...

We’re talking death and renewal and the backspin of the petit but potent planet Pluto, beginning its retrograde in Aquarius on May 2. Read on to learn more about how this transit.

Perhaps, though it’s also true that all of these objects—including Pluto—are in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy objects around the Sun extending beyond the orbit of Neptune. They also have ...