10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
... Neptune called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). TNOs are classed as minor or dwarf planets and indeed Pluto is now considered a TNO, as is Eris, the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. For comparison, Eris, like Pluto, is a little...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...and 5,300 exoplanets (depending on whether you include ‘validated’ planets and/or ‘candidate’ planets in your count or not), and the rate of discovery...we have found hot Jupiters, gas-dominated dwarf planets, super-sized Earths, and even miniature ...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...to have 11 satellites, while Saturn, with nine, was the only planet - perhaps in the entire Universe - to be blessed with the unique... and Enceladus? Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet but a ‘dwarf planet’, but this does not stop it from being one...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...system formation; delivery of life-elements to the planets; giant planet migration; processes in an evolving solar system;...New Horizons is another exciting mission that flew by the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015 and has more recently encountered Ultima ...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... or indeed water worlds, thus adding to the uncertainty in planet structures. After analysis of their results Zeng and team found ...can also be applied to smaller, icier worlds like the dwarf planets and moons in the outer solar system and has been ...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
...bodies, researchers have constructed models to constrain a possible location of Planet Nine. The hunt for a Planet X started in 1915 and with the discovery of objects such as Sedna, a dwarf planet as big as Pluto and more recently another Kuiper Belt...
