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Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...
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Pluto and the Dwarf Planets
Pluto is back! His adventures searching for the mysterious dwarf planets continue! Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation ...
FLAGSTAFF, Az. – Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating ...
After passing Pluto, the craft will continue into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Scientists suspect there may be yet more moons around Pluto, some perhaps sharing or swapping orbits and ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers spotted 139 new objects in our solar system in orbit beyond Neptune.
New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says, "Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system." As the craft ...
The last thing, perhaps, astronomers expected to find was a six-mile deep canyon at the edge of the Solar System. But on Charon, Pluto's nearest moon, they found this most familiar of geological ...
The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids, moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this? Oh noooo… Stella: You should know where all the planets are ...