The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Pluto, now considered a dwarf planet, failed one of the three tests the International Astronomical Union has used to define planets. Dailymotion Posted: March 3, 2025 | Last updated: March 3, 2025 ...

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 ...

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nine if you count dwarf power planet Pluto. Because we live on Earth, the maximum number of planets we can see from our vantage, for now, is seven — or eight, if Pluto is in the mix. If three ...

Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...

A stronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that ...

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 ...