In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...
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Why does Pluto have such a weird orbit?

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...
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Pluto’s Moons and Everything You Didn’t Know You Want to Know About Them

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...
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1st known interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua is an 'exo-Pluto' — a completely new class of object, scientists say

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But ...
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Pluto isn’t a planet — but it gives us clues for how the solar system formed

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...
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Is Pluto a Real Planet?

Pluto has long been one of the most debated celestial bodies in our solar system. Once classified as the ninth planet, it was ...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

Unveiling: Why Does Pluto Have Such an Odd Orbit?

First, let’s compare the orbital characteristics of Pluto with those of other planets. Pluto has an orbital eccentricity (the degree to which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle) of 0.25, while ...