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13 August 2014
Pluto rocks (back and forth), large harems make male deer age faster, the midge with the tiny genome and more
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Found 676 results for dwarf planet
Exoplanet names will be put to public vote
10 July 2014
The international group that names cosmic bodies is crowd-sourcing names for exoplanets – but will you be able to name a planet Alderaan or Westeros?
First life-friendly exoplanet may not exist after all
3 July 2014
Touted since 2007 as a top contender for hosting life, the rocky world Gliese 581 d may be no more than sunspots, according to a re-analysis of its signal
Pollution on other worlds may show advanced alien life
27 June 2014
A NASA telescope should be able to sniff the atmospheres of Earth-sized worlds for industrial gases like CFCs – a sign of civilisation
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
Today on 91av
11 June 2014
All the latest on newscientist.com: who beats Jesus and Hitler, trilobites, Africa's paradise regained, new particle lurks in LHC data and more
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
