The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet, provisionally named 2017 OF201, located in the remote outskirts of ...

an unusual clustering of icy bodies -- including comets and dwarf planets -- which stretches from Neptune and outward toward interstellar space. Six known objects in the Kuiper Belt have ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all claimed ... it’s called a “dwarf” planet. This means Pluto is not considered a major planet like Mercury or ...

Scientists have been searching for a ninth planet to explain the orbital eccentricities of Uranus and Neptune (and dwarf planets like Sedna and Pluto) for more than a century. For the past decade ...

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a disk of comets and other small objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. In 2015, NASA's New Horizons probe passed Pluto and spotted signs of recent geological activity in the dwarf planet's thinning ...

New dwarf planet discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune James Webb telescope discovers frozen water around alien star Jupiter is shrinking and used to be twice as big, mind-boggling study reveals ...

Pluto is one of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune primarily filled with small, icy objects. Despite its reclassification from planet to dwarf planet in 2006 ...

Dwarf planet Pluto sticks out because it’s off ... that have to be explained by some sort of additional object beyond Neptune. “However, all of this has been understood for quite some time ...