Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...
A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects ...
Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.
Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...
There are eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. You may recall that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the ...
That's not just because it's too far away. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAS) reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. That decision came several years after discovering the Kuiper ...