Scientists discover an object called ‘Farout’ at a distance of 120 Astronomical Units (AU) from the Sun. Researchers finally found a body in our solar system which is orbiting at more than 100 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Farout, also known as 2018 VG18, became the most distant object observed in…
Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute have pointed towards a lot of secrets that the future missions to Pluto would like to unveil. The first up-close look at Pluto laid the groundwork for plans of future Pluto orbiter mission due to the intriguing and impelling discoveries made from it. The images and data collected from…
Researchers from the University of Arizona solved the mystery about the missing mountains of Ceres. Giuseppe Piazzi of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory was the name behind the discovery of Ceres, the first asteroid ever located by astronomers. He made this historic detection on 1st January 1801. At the time of this finding, Ceres was given…
It’s been forty years since the largest moon, Charon, in the solar system relative to its parent planet was discovered. Pluto has always been a topic of debate as there is a difference of opinion whether it is a planet or not. It enjoyed the status of the 9th planet of our solar system for…
The size of cosmic objects is simply mindboggling and the existence of some of them is a mystery in itself. Our universe is so huge that we haven’t been able to discover everything that it has to offer. That’s the reason why the crown of the largest thing in the universe is changing frequently as…
New Horizon Mission by Alan Stern has forced scientists to reconsider their decision of ruling out Pluto as a planet. Planets are a vital part of our solar system. Each of them has a different set of properties that differentiate them from each other. These properties may vary on the basis of their diameter, rotation…
Pluto has a 100-kilometer layer of Carbon beneath its crust, scientists say There is a consensus among scientists on calling Pluto a ‘Dwarf Planet’. It is located in Kuiper belt (a ring of bodies beyond Neptune). At the time of its discovery, it was given the status of a planet but this changed later when…
Astronomers discovered a new planetary object at the edge of our Solar System and they named it Dee Dee (Distant Dwarf). The Mystrious object was discovered on 2016 but then we didn’t knew nothing about it’s physical structure. But now, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) brought new data about this object which is much bigger…