Charon's Icy Surface Erupted From an Underground Ocean
Discover Magazine - Tue 5 Feb 19While New Horizons is exploring new targets, researchers are still working on the mountains of data it returned in 2015 from its visit to Pluto and its moon Charon. Charon is Pluto's largest ...
Charon’s icy surface erupted from an underground ocean, Astronomy.com - Tue 5 Feb 19Japanese astronomers spot new class of object in the Kuiper Belt
New Atlas - Wed 30 Jan 19While astronomers are still hunting for a huge new planet somewhere beyond Neptune, smaller objects have been turning up with surprising regularity lately. Now, a team at the National ...
The latest picture of Ultima Thule reveals a remarkably smooth face
ScienceNews - Tue 29 Jan 19Kuiper Belt object MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, is largely unmarred by impact craters, suggesting the Kuiper Belt might lack small objects.
Astronomers have spotted a small first-of-its-kind object in the Kuiper Belt
MIT Technology Review - Tue 29 Jan 19Missing-link in planet evolution found
Phys.org - Mon 28 Jan 19For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the solar system. Kilometer-sized bodies like the one discovered have been predicted to exist for more ...
Missing link in planet evolution found, Astrobiology Magazine - Wed 30 Jan 19Missing-link in planet evolution found, ScienceDaily - Mon 28 Jan 19
Missing link found? Mysterious space rock may provide clues to how planets form
FOXNews - Tue 29 Jan 19Described as the "missing link," scientists have discovered an object in deep space they believe may hold the secrets to how planets are formed.
Newfound Distant Space Rock May Be Missing Link of Planet Formation
SPACE.com - Tue 29 Jan 19The far outer solar system is teeming with mountain-size space rocks left over from the long-ago planet-formation period, a new study suggests.
Astronomers discover huge body at the edge of our solar system
Daily Mail - Mon 28 Jan 19Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan say that there is a mass in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system which could give clues to how it was created.
Kilometer-sized Kuiper belt object provides missing link in planetary evolution
UPI - Mon 28 Jan 19Astronomers have for the first time identified a kilometer-sized object at the edge of the solar system.
Missing link in planet evolution found
SpaceDaily - Tue 29 Jan 19Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the Solar System. Kilometer sized bodies like the one discovered have ...