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NASA’s most recent photos of Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, have revealed some of the most intriguing and ...
The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...
A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...
James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...
Here are some of the most amazing discoveries that New Horizons and previous Earth-based observations have produced of Pluto. Being so cold, Pluto boasts different kinds of ices that planets ...
Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the ...
There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...
Lon Tweeten for TIME None of the new discoveries about Pluto would have been made, of course, had the little world not been spotted in the first place—an achievement that took sublime attention ...
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh ... NASA sent its probe New Horizons on a flyby in 2015. It confirmed the tiny planet harbored an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell.