Five were detected by the recently launched tess space telescope.
New discoveries in solar system 2019.
Billions of miles from the solar system s center crackling solar.
Nasa s planet counter ticked up to 4 000 then passed it by three with 31 new discoveries.
There is a violent clash unfolding at the frontier of our solar system.
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1 zooming past the object at more than 32 000 miles 51 000 kilometers per hour.
Here are the 26 biggest discoveries and achievements in space from 2019.
They push the official planet count past.
Discovery of 20 new moons gives saturn a solar system record with its newfound companions saturn nudges out jupiter as the planet with the most known moons in our cosmic neighborhood.
June 13 2019 what s new.
In our own solar system scientists also discovered new moons and evidence of violent collisions from the past.
New horizons completed the farthest flyby in history when it came within about 2 200 miles 3 500 kilometers of ultima thule at 12 33 a m.