When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun’s ninth ...

"My colleagues and I were over the moon when we were invited to participate in an international mission funded by Nasa." ...

"The most exciting part of the HSC was the discovery of 11 objects at distances beyond the known Kuiper Belt," said Yoshida.

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According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

Subaru, which is an 8-meter (26-foot) telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, has been working with New Horizons since its 2006 launch toward Pluto, which the spacecraft flew by in 2015. Since then ...

In this case, the occultation was a chance to capture information about Pluto's atmosphere, as explained below. We used a single state-of-the-art 0.5-metre Newtonian telescope that was generously ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...