One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

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There have been surprising revelations in the crocodile world as of late: DNA analysis has revealed that two reptiles once ...

Astronomers confirm the existence of small, hot and likely rocky planets by observing the subtle gravitational wobbles of the star they orbit Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

They lie about 250 astronomical units from a third brown dwarf, making the system even more complex. Adding a planet to this picture only deepens the mystery. The system belongs to the Argus ...

This exoplanet, which is roughly six times the mass of Jupiter (making it a "super-Jupiter"), was the first transiting planet known to orbit a white dwarf (WD) star. In a recent paper, an ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

The two space surveys, conducted 23 years apart, could show how a secret planet orbits. Since the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet, there’s been a ninth-planet-shaped hole in the hearts of many ...

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Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond Neptune, it orbits the sun every 25,000 years.