Hungry white dwarf devours surprisingly icy Pluto-like world
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the white dwarf star WD 1647+375 surrounded by a disk of rocky…
Pluto’s Moons and Everything You Didn’t Know You Want to Know About Them
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, with its dark Mordor Macula (left), along with Hydra (top mid), Nix (bottom mid),…
Is ‘Oumuamua a piece of ancient solar system? Scientists think it came from ‘exo-Pluto’
1I/’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object to visit our solar system in 2017, belongs to a completely new class…
1st known interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua is an ‘exo-Pluto’ — a completely new class of object, scientists say
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Astronomers Discover Mysterious New World at Edge of the Solar System
A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered…
Aug. 24, 2006: Pluto is demoted
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, our solar system’s ninth member is downgraded to…