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Pluto

Space

Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a brief kiss

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a stable orbit around the dwarf planet

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Space

A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club

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Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?

Space

Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?

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Space

Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

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Space

Is it possible to drill a hole straight through a planet?

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Pluto's icy volcanic region

Space

Pluto has a huge field of bumpy ice created by massive volcanoes

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Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

Space

Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

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Pluto is covered in huge red patches and we don't know what they are

Space

Pluto is covered in huge red patches and we don't know what they are

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Science with Sam volcanoes

Space

Science with Sam: Are there volcanoes in space?

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Pluto and Charon

Space

Pluto's tiny moons may have been chipped off its biggest moon

Pluto has one very large moon, Charon, and four tiny ones, leaving astronomers confused as to how they formed. The answer may be that the quartet used to be part of Charon, not Pluto

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Space

Pluto formed quickly with a deep ocean covering its entire surface

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Space

Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards

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Space

The solar system has too many moons – it's time for a cull

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Space

Pluto is coloured red by ammonia spewing from underneath its surface

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