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At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

Later, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, yet its mysterious charm has not diminished at all. Why is that? Because Pluto's complex and elusive terrain is like a mysterious key that may hold the ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Did you know that all the DNA in your body could stretch to Pluto and back multiple times, and that strawberries, raspberries ...

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Oumuamua, the first interstellar object detected in 2017, is most likely a fragment of a Pluto-like body. Scientists believe it was flung out of the solar system billions of years ago during its ...

This quiz invites you to chase comets through time and space, from ancient omens to modern scientific marvels.

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Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...