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A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail down their respective masses, a new study reports.

Pluto, a dwarf planet in the solar system, orbits beyond Neptune with a thin atmosphere and icy surface. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the major planets, has a diameter that is twice as large as Pluto’s.

Kids Planet has acquired a group of eight settings across Surrey, West Sussex and Kent. PHOTO: Perfect Start Day Nursery in Walton-on-Thames The UK’s third largest nursery group has bought Perfect ...

A stronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that quest is still ongoing, the observatory made history as the place where ...

CAMBRIDGE -- Discovery of a new planet beyond the orbit of Neptune was reported by the Harvard observatory Thursday. The Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, made the discovery officials ...

(The absolute nearest star system to us, Proxima Centauri, has three stars circling each other, which changes the dynamics of planet formation and orbits). Barnard’s Star is a type called an M dwarf ...

Dwarf planets are those bodies that have the first two of the three required characteristics but have not yet cleared their orbits of material. When it was discovered in 1930, Pluto was considered ...

Since it received its new status of a “dwarf planet,” Pluto can console itself with finally being the largest of something in the Solar System. Due to its proximity to the Kuiper Belt ...