The discovery of a distant, icy rock last year -- 2003 UB313 - that has led to the demise of the former planet Pluto, has been official christened by the International Astronomical Union on Wednesday.
It has been given a name 'Eris', after the...
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Later this month, a new space mission will be launched to study the most violent explosions in the solar system. A British, US and Japanese collaboration will be monitoring the sun's magnetic field, the Solar-B mission to learn more about solar...
Our solar system will be including at least 3 more planets in it with the adoption of the new definition of the word 'Planet'. This will happen next week with the voting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) on a draft definition of -- 'what...
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