Could there be an orbiter at Pluto in the near future?

Scientists and engineers are seriously discussing the possibility of sending an orbiter to Pluto and beyond into the Kuiper Belt

New equation can more accurately predict space weather

The Kappa equation accounts for the space plasma particle distributions and characterises their thermodynamic behaviour

Studies of a binary pair of asteroids provide an insight into the past of the Solar System

The Hypatia Catalog has data on thousands of stars, and hundreds of exoplanets, that have been observed over 35 years

After ruling out the transportation of substances by asteroids and comets, scientists conclude that organics likely originate from Ceres

The best close-ups of the dwarf planet that humans may see for decades have been released

The dwarf planet’s smaller moons, Nix and Hydra, have been showing off their surface features

With less than four days until the spacecraft’s close approach to the dwarf planet, imagery of Pluto’s system is truly coming into focus