Our top 5 wacky NASA missions that might just happen
12 April 2016
NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts programme funds long-shot concepts for further study. This year's include a paper-thin spaceship and a steampunk Venus rover
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Found 317 results for dwarf planet
SETI looks at red dwarf stars in its search for ancient aliens
4 April 2016
The extraterrestrial-hunting SETI Institute is aiming its array of radio telescopes at 20,000 small, cold stars unlike our own to see if anyone is home
Pluto may have tipped over when Charon tugged at its heart
4 April 2016
The iconic heart-shaped feature on Pluto is so dense that it could have led to the entire dwarf planet swivelling over time
More evidence for Planet Nine as odd celestial alignment emerges
30 March 2016
Another celestial object has been found in a group with strangely similar orbits, implying they are shepherded by something - possibly a mysterious ninth planet
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
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
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
