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Pluto's atmosphere is collapsing as it drifts away from the sun into a deep freeze

As Pluto edges further away from the sun, the chilly temperatures are causing its atmosphere to condense onto its barren surface as frost.

Space · Aug 10

Hidden moon may hold together rings of strange comet-like object between Jupiter and Neptune

A little moonlet, too small to be seen from Earth, could be playing cosmic sheepdog by shaping the thin rings around the distant minor planet Chariklo, according to new computer simulations.

Space · Feb 8, 2024

Mighty morphin' Centaur rings — a distant icy object's rings are transforming

What is causing the structure of the dust to evolve, and where exactly the dust comes from, is still a mystery.

Space · Dec 4, 2023