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Scientists are one step closer to cracking the cosmic case of a dwarf planet's disappearing craters
Based on collision models, scientists figured Ceres should have accumulated about 10 to 15 cra…
Ali Sundermier
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Astronomers have found 7 Earth-size planets circling a dwarf star - and they might harbor life
"But one thing is certain: in a few billion years, when the Sun has run out of fuel and the Solar S…
Dave Mosher
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Astronomers have found 7 Earth-size planets circling a dwarf star - and they might harbor life
"But one thing is certain: in a few billion years, when the Sun has run out of fuel and the Solar S…
Dave Mosher
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Pluto has a heart of ice that might not be so frozen after all
Pluto, a planet that used to be one of the big nine, might have oceans under its surface.
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Pluto's dwarf planet status is 'bulls---,' says lead scientist of NASA mission
The problem, Stern said, is that the reclassification largely stemmed from the opinions of astronom…
Kelly Dickerson
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Pluto-bound probe snaps its first images of the dwarf planet
New Horizons is equipped with seven different science instruments to study Pluto and its five known…
Mike Wall
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NASA is about to solve a major mystery about dwarf planet Ceres
Last year astronomers at the European Space Agency peered at Ceres with the Herschel telescope and …
Kelly Dickerson
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These incredible images are the best yet of our near-neighbor dwarf planet Ceres
The top row of the image below shows the bright spot near Ceres's equator. The bottom row shows a p…
Kelly Dickerson
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Humans just made history by reaching an icy dwarf planet for the first time
"We feel exhilarated," Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission at the University …
Jessica Orwig
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Here's the first video of Pluto made from the clearest photos ever taken of the dwarf planet
Even from one million miles away, New Horizons was snapping photos (shown below) that were already …
Jessica Orwig
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NASA Just Released The Best Images Of A Dwarf Planet We've Ever Seen
They also want to investigate why the dwarf planet is spewing jets of water vapor into space - a di…
Jessica Orwig
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Astronomers caught a planet being born for the first time in a stunning new picture
PDS 70b has an atmosphere - but it's no place you'd want to visit. Astronomers who've studied the d…
Dave Mosher
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This chart shows the mind-blowing way Mike Bloomberg's $62 billion fortune dwarfs the net worth of everyone else running for president
Bloomberg has been investing heavily in advertising, running TV ads for months, including an $11 mi…
Andy Kiersz
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are strikingly similar to the sun and Earth
Scientists discovered an Earth-like, potentially habitable planet about 3,000 light-years away. Its…
Holly Secon
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Pluto became a dwarf planet 9 years ago today - but that's 'bulls---,' according to a leading NASA scientist
The problem, Stern said, is that the reclassification largely stemmed from the opinions of astronom…
Kelly Dickerson
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Is it Planet 9 or Planet X? Scientists spar over what to call the solar system's hypothetical missing world
Stern is an ardent defender of Pluto's planethood. In 2015, shortly after New Horizons flew past Pl…
Dave Mosher
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NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets - and 10 may be like Earth
Scientists wouldn't say too much about the 10 new planets, only that they appear to be roughly Eart…
Dave Mosher
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Humans are about to make our first visit to a dwarf planet - a mission more than 100 years in the making
This is made possible by its ion propulsion system, which gave the spacecraft enough power to escap…
Jessica Orwig
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Here's why some scientists think Pluto should still be a planet
Narrator: And while these new worlds looked and behaved like Pluto, they were completely different …
Gina Echevarria,Shira Polan
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Trump's NASA chief, who has no scientific background, said Pluto is a planet
While NASA administrators are usually appointed from within the ranks of the agency or have substan…