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Charon's Icy Surface Erupted From an Underground Ocean

Discover Magazine - Tue 5 Feb 19

While 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 19

Japanese astronomers spot new class of object in the Kuiper Belt

New Atlas - Wed 30 Jan 19

While 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 19

Kuiper Belt object MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, is largely unmarred by impact craters, suggesting the Kuiper Belt might lack small objects.

Missing-link in planet evolution found

Phys.org - Mon 28 Jan 19

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 been predicted to exist for more ...

Missing link in planet evolution found, Astrobiology Magazine - Wed 30 Jan 19
Missing-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 19

Described 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 19

The 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 19

Researchers 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 19

Astronomers 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 19

Tokyo, 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 ...