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More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges

30 March 2016

Another celestial object has been found in a group with strangely similar orbits, implying they are shepherded by something - possibly a mysterious ninth planet

Ceres surprises with water ice and colourful bright spots

22 March 2016

NASA's Dawn spacecraft zoomed in on dwarf planet Ceres and found unexpected treasures hidden in its craters

Pluto may have hosted lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen

21 March 2016

Studying how the dwarf planet's climate changed over time shows it once had the right conditions for liquid to flow on its surface - and may still have buried lakes today

Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in

17 March 2016

Eight months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's historic fly-by of Pluto, new data reveals startling links between Pluto, Charon, their four smaller satellites, and the space environment that surrounds them

Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time

4 March 2016

We knew the dwarf planet had weather systems, but here's the first evidence from the New Horizons probe of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere

Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe

24 February 2016

Astronomers are scrambling for unusual ways to find the proposed ninth planet hiding in the outer reaches of the solar system

Lonely exoplanet orbits its star at greatest distance yet seen

26 January 2016

A closer look at the motions of a small star and a misfit planet shows the two are linked by gravity - and can teach us about planets and stars alike

Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto

22 January 2016

The European Space Agency craft designed to map a billion stars in the Milky Way has also been keeping an eye out for everyone's favourite dwarf planet