18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
... the case. Analysis of the data suggests that the dwarf planet's most prominent surface feature – a heart-shaped region...number of years as it aligns almost exactly opposite from the dwarf planet's moon, Charon, in a locked orientation and why this ...
02 July 2015
Peculiar Pluto: Spots captured by New Horizons puzzle NASA
We may have demoted Pluto to the status of dwarf planet – but this doesn’t mean we know all of its secrets. This fact was driven home to the scientific ...
25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
People who write about dwarf planet Ceres rarely fail to mention about how mysterious it is. But NASA’s Dawn mission is changing that, somewhat. Ceres is ...
21 September 2015
New pictures of ‘surprisingly Earth-like’ Pluto by New Horizons
We’re used to thinking of Pluto as a distinctly alien world. But the latest photos of the dwarf planet make it seem pretty familiar. The pictures have been transmitted by NASA’s New Horizons after weeks that ...
20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
...the downgrading of Pluto’s status to that of a dwarf planet has never really subsided since its demotion in 2006 ...sent back the first close-up images ever made of the [dwarf] planet, showed stunning surface features including what could be the tell-...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... patch of light, observed from afar for more than two centuries and once called a planet, then an asteroid, and now a dwarf planet, finally comes into sharper focus. Wonderfully exciting though they are, the views draw...
