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A curious kid asks: Why does it matter if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet?
The dwarf planets in our Solar System are cold, dark, far away and full of surprises.
Pluto has recently active icy volcanoes, that have erupted water ice.
From the tallest cliff in the solar system to its largest impact basin, geological processes on other worlds are very similar to those on our own planet.
Pluto began hot inside, study of its surface fractures suggests
In the search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, scientists may have uncovered another explanation for the patterns in the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects.
A young reader asks: Is Pluto a planet?
Many people are still upset that Pluto was demoted from being a planet. But definitions of various celestial objects are fairly fluid. So whether it is an asteroid or moon or planet is up for debate.
The dwarf planet Pluto is heading away from the Sun and that’s having a devastating impact on its atmosphere.
There’s a mysterious lack of small bodies beyond Neptune, but a ‘snowman-shaped’ object may help explain why.
Senegal has made great strides in astronomy and planetary sciences in recent years.
Pluto has a density between that of rock and ice – so that immediately suggests the dwarf planet is made of a mix of both. But how do we know?
Images from New Horizons spacecraft provide more evidence about the surface of Pluto.
A group of astronomers are trying to reclassify Pluto as full ‘planet’. But there are good reasons to leave our classification system alone, and this doesn’t mean Pluto is any less interesting.
Scientists first started disagreeing about whether the moon should be a planet in Galileo’s day.
Astronomers are excited about sub-surface oceans in the solar system, as they may support life. Now Pluto joins the club.
Trapped gas could be tainting the north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon dark red.
After last summer’s Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data back to Earth – at 2 kilobits per second. Here’s some of what scientists have learned so far from that rich, slow cache.
From a flyby of Pluto to the search for extrasolar planets and gravitational waves, 2015 was a monumental year for space news.
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