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Most Distant Object In Solar System Discovered
March 16, 2004 — NASA-funded researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's Sun. The object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than ... > full story -
First Extrasolar Planets, Now Extrasolar Moons
October 10, 2003 — The European Space Agency is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other ... > full story -
Solar System 'Fossils' Discovered By Hubble Telescope
September 8, 2003 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of ... > full story -
Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission Moves Ahead; NASA Approves Full-Scale Development for APL-Managed New Horizons
April 10, 2003 — The solar system's farthest known planetary outpost is closer to getting its first visitor. This week NASA gave The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research ... > full story -
Hubble Spots An Icy World Far Beyond Pluto
October 8, 2002 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object in the solar system ever seen since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Approximately half the size of Pluto, the icy world 2002 ... > full story -
Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects At The Fringe Of Our Solar System
April 18, 2002 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me" -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs ... > full story -
NASA Seeks Proposals For Pluto Mission; Plans To Restructure Outer Planet Program
December 21, 2000 — NASA seeking proposals from principal investigators and institutions around the world to develop the first mission to Pluto. The announcement marks the first time the Office of Space Science has ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Apparent "Outer Edge" To The Solar System
October 30, 2000 — Our solar system may have an outer "edge" just outside the orbit of Pluto, astronomers announced recently. Their results suggest that early in the history of the solar system, some event ... > full story -
Image Spacecraft In Orbit, Preparing To "See" The Invisible
March 28, 2000 — NASA’s newest Sun-Earth Connection spacecraft lifted off March 25. Instruments onboard the IMAGE spacecraft will provide scientists with never-before-seen global images of the Earth’s ... > full story -
Pluto Safe From Demotion
February 2, 1999 — The short national nightmare is coming to an end. The solar system will continue to have nine planets. "There is no plan to 'downgrade' or 'demote' Pluto," says Brian Marsden, ... > full story
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