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Kuiper Belt Moons Are Starting To Seem Typical
January 11, 2006 — In the not-too-distant past, the planet Pluto was thought to be an odd bird in the outer reaches of the solar system because it has a moon, Charon, that was formed much like Earth's own moon was ... > full story -
Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto
October 31, 2005 — Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons ... > full story -
Tenth Planet Has A Moon
October 3, 2005 — The newly discovered 10th planet, 2003 UB313, is looking more and more like one of the solar system's major players. It has the heft of a real planet (latest estimates put it at about 20 percent ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Solar System's Tenth Planet -- Bigger Than Pluto
July 29, 2005 — A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying regions of the solar system. The planet was discovered using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif. ... > full story -
NASA's Hubble Chases Unruly Planet
June 22, 2005 — A detailed image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tugging on a dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Beginnings Of 'Mini' Solar System
February 8, 2005 — Moons circle planets, and planets circle stars. Now, astronomers have learned that planets may also circle celestial bodies almost as small as planets. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has ... > full story -
Hubble’s Infrared Eyes Home In On Suspected Extrasolar Planet
January 11, 2005 — Unique follow up observations carried out with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion to a relatively ... > full story -
Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds? Close Encounter May Explain Some Objects Beyond Neptune
December 8, 2004 — Computer simulations show a close encounter with a passing star about 4 billion years ago may have given our solar system its abrupt edge and put small, alien worlds into distant orbits around our ... > full story -
Good News For Pluto: KBOs May Be Smaller Than Thought
November 16, 2004 — Pluto's status as our solar system's ninth planet may be safe if a recently discovered Kuiper Belt Object is a typical "KBO" and not just an oddball. Astronomers have new evidence ... > full story -
Cassini VIMS Team Finds That Phoebe May Be Kin To Comets
June 24, 2004 — Scientists may at last have settled the debate on the origin of Saturn's moon, Phoebe. Saturn long ago captured its largest outermost satellite, Phoebe, when the moon wandered in from the frigid ... > full story
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