Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?
12 September 2023
Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets Society is all about bringing it back by making it bigger, faster and better than ever
-
Subject
-
Section
-
Type
-
Topics
-
Author
-
Issue
-
Premium
Found 675 results for dwarf planet
Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto
11 September 2023
Join Leah and Chelsea as they belatedly mourn the loss of Pluto as a planet. Back in 2006, Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet”, sparking widespread outrage… a decision the team is still determined to reverse.Special guests are Kathryn Volk of the University...
Dead Planets Society: #5 The Return of Pluto
11 September 2023
Join Leah and Chelsea as they belatedly mourn the loss of Pluto as a planet. Back in 2006, Pluto was demoted to “dwarf planet”, sparking widespread outrage… a decision the team is still determined to reverse.Special guests are Kathryn Volk of the University...
The untold story of the curiously controversial Homo floresiensis dig
30 August 2023
The discovery of Homo floresiensis revolutionised the study of human evolution, but it was rocked by accusations of theft. Twenty years on, here's the full story behind the episode
Brown dwarf is locked in a destructive 2-hour orbit with a tiny star
9 August 2023
A “failed star” known as a brown dwarf is orbiting so tightly with a small star that both of them would fit inside our sun, and at least one of them won’t survive
When was the first sunrise on Earth?
19 July 2023
This is a question of how we define “Earth”, say our readers, but we also need to consider when light from the young sun could have pierced Earth’s atmosphere
Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side
19 July 2023
A strange star more than 1300 light years away appears to have two sides with completely different compositions, and astronomers aren’t sure how it ended up that way
Distant planet may be the first known to share its orbit with another
19 July 2023
Exoplanet PDS 70b, a gas giant seven times the mass of Jupiter, appears to share an orbit with a ball of dust around the mass of Earth's moon, which could be forming a new planet
Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?
18 July 2023
What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead Planets Society podcast dives into the possibilities
Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet the size of Uranus
27 June 2023
Many planets are thought to be flung away from their stars, but it’s possible that some get trapped on the way out – and one could be lurking at the edge of our own solar system
