Atmosphere detected on celestial body in solar system's far reaches

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - In the far reaches of our solar system - beyond the outermost planet Neptune - ...

Astronomers find atmosphere around a solar system object that shouldn’t have one

A rare observation opportunity revealed the presence of a thin atmosphere around a small object beyond Pluto.
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JWST unmasks the gas dwarf: How two rare planets travelled 190 light years together

MIT astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that a rare "planetary odd couple", a hot Jupiter and a ...
Science Daily

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 star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Could Pluto Once Again Be Considered a Planet? New Remarks From NASA’s Administrator Highlight an Enduring Debate Among Scientists

Two decades ago, the International Astronomical Union—which defines and names celestial bodies—redefined the criteria for ...

'Make Pluto a planet again,' NASA chief says at US senate hearing

NASA chief Jared Isaacman said at a US Senate hearing that he supports restoring Pluto's status as a planet after a ...

Is Pluto a planet? NASA's chief says it should be

Is Pluto a planet? At a U.S. Senate committee hearing this week, NASA's chief shared his thoughts on the decades-long debate.

Quit Whining. Pluto’s Not A Planet — An Astrophysicist Explains

The head of NASA says maybe Pluto is a planet after all. He is wrong because Pluto is part of the rest of the solar system ...

Should Pluto be considered a planet? Why NASA chief says yes

NASA chief Jared Isaacman said at a US Senate hearing that he supports restoring Pluto's status as a planet after a ...
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NASA’s TESS detects a rare exoplanet system where orbits will shift out of alignment in 200 years

The TOI 201 system has an extreme amount of dynamic instability, an uncommon phenomenon that present telescopes have very rarely observed. Science Advances published research revealing that there is a ...