Outer Solar System

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Voyager 2 spacecraft approaches interstellar space

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New Horizons collects first science on a Kuiper Belt object past Pluto

Solar System

Dwarf planet Haumea’s lunar system smaller than anticipated

Solar System

An asteroid got knocked into a cometary orbit long ago

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Exoplanet kicked into exile

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Weird Object: Uranus’ Moon Miranda

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New Horizons selects Kuiper Belt target

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Tour the solar system: Pluto and the Kuiper Belt

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This lab grows Pluto’s ices so New Horizons knows what it’s looking at

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Looking back before peering ahead: Pluto, an interactive timeline

Solar System

Astronomers recently discovered that Scholz’s star passed close to the Sun 70,000 years ago. Wouldn’t its gravity have sent Oort Cloud comets raining into the inner planets?

Exoplanets, Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Postage for Pluto: A 29-cent stamp pissed off scientists so much they tacked it to New Horizons