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16 June 2015
All the latest on newscientist.com: is Pluto a dwarf or a planet? plankton with sniper eye, US emissions follow politicians, computer fashion tips and more
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Found 678 results for dwarf planet
How New Horizons will probe mysteries of Pluto's oddball moons
10 June 2015
One frozen ammonia world is too large even to be a moon, and no one can work out how four others got there. What's their story?
Our exploration of the solar system is just getting started
10 June 2015
Pluto might be the final stop on NASA's Grand Tour, but our visit marks the start of a new wave of exploration of the myriad worlds in our neighbourhood
Dwarf or planet? First visit to Pluto could reignite the row
10 June 2015
How many solar system planets are there: eight, nine? Or 73 or 74? Arguments swirl on nine years after Pluto was struck off the official list
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system's story
10 June 2015
Rivers of neon, geysers of nitrogen, an oddly giant moon: the New Horizons probe promises revealing spectacles – and insights into deep solar system history
Pluto's strange family of moons are locked in a mysterious waltz
3 June 2015
Three of Pluto's four small moons are moving in step, and the fourth looks darker than the rest – creating a puzzle as to how they formed
Giant telescope in Hawaii gets go-ahead, if others shut down
3 June 2015
Protests over the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea halted its progress. Now construction is back on, but three other scopes will have to close
How we've got to know Pluto
29 May 2015
60 Seconds
13 May 2015
Ceres yields secrets, Shell's Arctic victory, Liberia free of Ebola and more
Rosetta's wrong water could be right after all
6 May 2015
Comet 67P's water isn't like Earth's – it's interstellar stuff, from the same mould as the pristine material that made the solar system
