Ceres surprises with water ice and colourful bright spots
22 March 2016
NASA's Dawn spacecraft zoomed in on dwarf planet Ceres and found unexpected treasures hidden in its craters
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Found 393 results for dwarf planet
Pluto may have hosted lakes and rivers of liquid nitrogen
21 March 2016
Studying how the dwarf planet's climate changed over time shows it once had the right conditions for liquid to flow on its surface - and may still have buried lakes today
Pluto gives up its icy secrets as New Horizons data pours in
17 March 2016
Eight months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's historic fly-by of Pluto, new data reveals startling links between Pluto, Charon, their four smaller satellites, and the space environment that surrounds them
Exclusive photos: Clouds seen on Pluto for first time
4 March 2016
We knew the dwarf planet had weather systems, but here's the first evidence from the New Horizons probe of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere
Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe
24 February 2016
Astronomers are scrambling for unusual ways to find the proposed ninth planet hiding in the outer reaches of the solar system
Barks and _ebooks: why we love robo Twitter accounts
24 February 2016
The burgeoning number of Twitter bots shows how much we need to connect to each other - and shines a light on lives unlike our own
How Do You Find an Exoplanet? An insider account gives top tips
3 February 2016
John Asher Johnson, who found the smallest exoplanet to date, proves an invaluable guide in his book about one of science's hottest fields
Lonely exoplanet orbits its star at greatest distance yet seen
26 January 2016
A closer look at the motions of a small star and a misfit planet shows the two are linked by gravity - and can teach us about planets and stars alike
Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto
22 January 2016
The European Space Agency craft designed to map a billion stars in the Milky Way has also been keeping an eye out for everyone's favourite dwarf planet
Hints that 'Planet Nine' may exist on edge of our solar system
20 January 2016
An unusual alignment between the orbits of six small bodies in the Kuiper belt suggests there is an undiscovered planet 10 times the mass of Earth
