Pluto-bound craft seeks Manhattan-sized lump of ice
17 June 2014
NASA has enlisted its famous Hubble telescope to search for a second destination for its New Horizons spacecraft, due to fly past Pluto in July 2015
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Found 465 results for dwarf planet
Two giant planets may cruise unseen beyond Pluto
11 June 2014
Planet X could have company – rocky bodies orbiting in weird clusters suggest that two monster planets hide in the outer reaches of the solar system
NASA 'dream fund' selects submarine for Saturn moon
9 June 2014
A submarine on Titan, a greenhouse on the Red Planet, and a space cowboy hitching a ride to Pluto on a comet top NASA's wild wish list
Pluto and its moon snuggle under a shared atmosphere
6 June 2014
Nitrogen from Pluto's atmosphere could be flowing over to its moon Charon – something we've never seen in a planet and moon before
Ancient exoplanet may have the right stuff for life
5 June 2014
A possibly rocky world snared from another galaxy is thought to be 11.5 billion years old and may still be warm enough to be friendly to life
Pluto and its moon snuggle under a shared atmosphere
4 June 2014
Nitrogen from Pluto's atmosphere could be flowing over to its moon Charon – something we've never seen in a planet and moon before
Ultimate solar system could contain 60 Earths
30 May 2014
The laws of physics potentially allow one binary star system to contain a surprisingly large number of Earth-like planets, assuming there is enough matter to form the worlds
Smallest life-friendly exoplanet may be lit by auroras
17 April 2014
Found by NASA's Kepler telescope, the world is slightly bigger than Earth and orbits an active red star that could drive dazzling sky shows
Gaggle of dwarf planets found by dark energy camera
2 April 2014
Designed to study distant galaxies, the world's largest digital camera is also uncovering faint, distant worlds on the outskirts of the solar system
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2 April 2014
Pluto gets another pal, more stem cell trouble, tubercular toms and more
