28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
... of another object, it orbits around the Sun, and, unlike a planet like Earth or Venus, it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its ...objects like Ceres from being classified as a full blown planet. The final requisite is that a body has to ...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
... Rubin Observatory will produce," Bernardinelli says. The searches could also help determine whether Planet Nine, a hypothesised Neptune-sized planet that's thought to inhabit space beyond Pluto, really exists or not. "There are lots of ideas...
17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
... instrument called SOPHIE installed at the Haute-Provence Observatory in the South of France, astronomers have discovered a six planet system containing a "super-Earth" and five "mini-Neptunes,” all with exceptionally regular spacing; a feature which...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
..., and with an abundance of liquid water on its surface, Earth is a planet like no other that we know of so far. It stands to reason then... 20 to 70 billion years and it might give orbiting planets a better chance to establish life say the team. After...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
... simulation produced a close match, then the initial population was likely a good representation of the actual population of planets orbiting those stars." Kunimoto's research also shed more light on one of the most outstanding questions in exoplanet...
27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
... the moon also reinforces the idea that most dwarf planets have satellites. "Makemake is in the class of rare...circular orbit around MakeMake and thus completes a circuit around the dwarf planet in 12 days or longer. Determining the shape of the moons ...
