Haumea: This American Football-Shaped World is the Strangest in the Solar System
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NASA scientists have used computer simulations to figure out how the dwarf planet Haumea became one of the most unusual…
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10 Things You Should Know About Eris, The Solar System’s “10th Planet”
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When the “new planet” Eris was presented to the world on July 29, 2005, it did not yet have an…
Dwarf Pluto Likely Started Out as a Warm Planet With Vast Oceans
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Until now, and mostly due to its location so far from the Sun, scientists thought that the origin of the…
Check Out 11 Stunning Close-Up Images of Pluto Taken By NASA’s New Horizon Spacecraft
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In 2016, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history after it flew past Pluto, our solar system’s former planet, now a…
Ninety years Since Pluto Was Officially Named: Here’s What You Should Know
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This May 1 marks 90 years since the now dwarf planet Pluto received its own name. This remote body of…