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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...
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A Mysterious Planet May Be Orbiting Farther Than Pluto — So Why Are We Still Blind to It?

Astronomers have identified a small but significant possibility that a Neptune-sized planet is quietly orbiting within the distant Oort cloud, the icy boundary of our solar system. According to recent ...
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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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Mystery object discovered beyond Pluto’s edge

Scientists have recently unveiled a remarkable discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system: a space fossil located 4 ...
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Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade after historic flyby

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...
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Pluto isn't a planet — but it gives us clues on how the solar system formed

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...