Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics and Head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Hull The planets in our Solar System are heated by the Sun. Here on Earth, we ...

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined a dwarf planet in 2006 as a celestial body that orbits the Sun, is round in shape, but has not cleared its orbital neighborhood of objects of ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Brad Gibson, Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for ...