Dwarf planet Eris may reveal quantum gravity
23 January 2013
The Pluto-killer is at it again: studies of the small world and its moon may also knock down popular theories of dark matter and dark energy
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Found 43 results for dwarf planet
Corpse stars could nurture life on alien planets
15 August 2012
Light from white dwarfs might be just right to support photosynthesis and undamaged DNA, smashing assumptions about where life might arise in the galaxy
Pluto's icy exterior may conceal an ocean
14 September 2011
If the dwarf planet's core has as much radioactive potassium as scientists think, it may have a subsurface ocean and the conditions to sustain life
Alien life may huddle under hydrogen blankets
11 May 2011
Earth-sized worlds far from the warmth of their stars could maintain liquid water and life if they are well wrapped by hydrogen in their atmospheres
'Dwarf' black holes might help explain dark matter
4 May 2011
Black holes might come in more sizes than small, medium and large – if so, mini black holes could contribute to the universe's mysterious dark matter
Is first life-friendly exoplanet an 'eyeball'?
12 January 2011
One way that Gliese 581Â g could host life is if it is a frozen world with a single, pupil-like ocean of liquid water
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change
7 July 2010
Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years even before we started farming – if we had a hand in the extinction of woolly mammoths
Cosmic hit-and-runs create failed stars
26 May 2010
Close encounters between swerving young stars might help spawn the brown dwarfs riddling the Milky Way
Paired stars may bear multiple litters of alien worlds
15 January 2010
Unlike single-star systems, those with two suns could produce more than one generation of planets
Alien planet could be ultimate water world
16 December 2009
The discovery of a planet that seems to made almost entirely of water suggests "super-Earths" are a more diverse bunch than we thought
