A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

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It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. Eris is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian ...

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"We know from our own solar system that giant planets bring a little bit of chaos to space. They can perturb orbits and give a little bit of extra boost to the velocities of objects, which is all ...

Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...

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The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

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