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Pluto’s Moons and Everything You Didn’t Know You Want to Know About Them

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...

Did Pluto Have a 'Fiery' Birth? The Possibility of Hidden Life in the Underground Ocean of the Dwarf Planet at the Edge of the Solar System?

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...
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1st known interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua is an 'exo-Pluto' — a completely new class of object, scientists say

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But ...
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Is Pluto a Real Planet?

Pluto has long been one of the most debated celestial bodies in our solar system. Once classified as the ninth planet, it was ...
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White dwarf caught devouring a frozen Pluto-like world

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

White Dwarf Consuming Frozen Pluto-like Bodies: Revealing the Existence of Volatile-rich Frozen Bodies in Exoplanetary Systems

In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MRNAS), astronomers from the University of Warwick, Europe, and the United States found strong evidence that ...