The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
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Ceres, The Closest Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System To The Sun, May Have Originated Right In The Asteroid BeltThe findings have revealed a lot about Ceres' origin. The dwarf planet stands out from all the others in the asteroid belt.
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...
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Mystery of dwarf planet Ceres' origin may finally be solved, thanks to retired NASA spacecraftwide dwarf planet may have originated at the outer edge of the solar system and may have migrated inwards to its current home ...
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Saturn Has 128 More Moons Than We ThoughtSaturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...
Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot ... 2015 RR245 is catalogued as the "18th largest" object in the Kuiper belt, according to the Minor Planet Center, the organization ...
A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...
New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has shown that a planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf—one of the dimmest ...
The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...
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