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The discovery has been made by scientists working at Carnegie Institution for Science, and it is of great significance – being the most-distant body...
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Back in 2006, the International Astronomical Union determined that the definition of a planet is one where a body must “clear” its orbit. This...
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The new findings point to evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto. The news of interest since it indicates that the distant dwarf...
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Ceres is a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt found between Mars and Jupiter. The largest object between the two planets, it is...
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Possibly the most striking is an image showing Kupalo Crater (above), one of Ceres’ many curious aspects. Kupalo Crater, 16 miles (26 kilometers) across,...
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That is one of the surprising conclusions of photographs taken 3.6 billion miles away by the earth probe New Horizons, which flew by the...
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Celebration broke out at New Horizons’ mission control center at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory when the spacecraft whizzed past Pluto at 7:49 a.m...