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Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...
Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.
A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...
How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...
The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...
Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...
What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was blocked using a coronagraph to reveal a planet to its right. The light at the ...
How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.
The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo‘oalewa.
Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a key role in the planet's energy balance.
Pluto and Charon eventually separated into what we see today: the moon orbiting around the dwarf planet. Despite the two celestial bodies colliding, most of their original composition was unbroken.