Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wants to put an end to a decades-long debate among scientists. Is Pluto a planet or not? Isaacman says it should be — but it hasn't been one for 20 years. That's ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...
Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...
The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...
Isaacman says it should be — but it hasn't been one for 20 years. That's because of a decision from the International Astronomical Union, which said it met the definition of a dwarf planet due to the ...
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