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Hubble Space Telescope watches dying star chow down on a Pluto-like world filled with ice

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

Astronomers have found more than 6,000 exoplanets. Billions more could be out there

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are waiting to be discovered.
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1st known interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua is an 'exo-Pluto' — a completely new class of object, scientists say

It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have ...

In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...
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What did New Horizons interplanetary ship see on approach to Pluto?

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New ...

Hubble sees white dwarf eating piece of Pluto-like object

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...