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Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere

Science | 2026-05-04 at 16:00 UTC | Source: www.newscientist.com
A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodies in the outer solar system
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