NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

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Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because of its distance beyond Neptune, is classified as a trans-Neptunian object ...

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In 2006, updated research led to Pluto being controversially demoted to dwarf planet status by the International Astronomical Union. The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung ...

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