The new map brings together all the images that NASA has been slowly releasing, into a single global overview of the solar system's largest known dwarf planet. The New Horizons probe did not orbit ...

The piano-size spacecraft traveled nine years and three billion miles to study the dwarf ... map of Pluto in enhanced color. Rippled hills An enhanced color image of a “snakeskin” texture ...

Scientists created a full world map of Pluto by stitching together ... July 2015 and returned the most detailed images of the dwarf planet we've ever seen. Source: Uncredited/AP Now the spacecraft ...

A new animation shows the orbits of hundreds of dwarf planets beyond Pluto. The astronomer who compiled the data says it may only capture a small fraction of dwarf planets in the solar system.

The solar system's erratic ninth planet, Pluto, was assigned to the new “dwarf planet” category along with four other bodies, all tinier than Earth’s moon. Some astronomers expect there may ...

New maps of Ceres provide insights into the dwarf planet's mysterious bright spots and pyramid shaped mountains. The maps, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, were unveiled by astronomers at the ...

This week, however, the company announced that far-out destinations can now be summoned directly in web browsers through a new feature of Google Maps called ... also moons, dwarf planets, and ...

About 6% of nearby dwarf stars likely host Earth-like planets, a science team announced on Wednesday. The astronomy team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge ...

The dwarf planets of Eris and Makemake ... "With modern instrumentation, it would be possible to map out not just the chemical compositions across their surfaces, but also the isotopic ratios.

First discovered and classified as planet in 1930, Pluto was relegated to "dwarf-planet" status by the International Astronomical Union in 2006. They booted it out because there appeared to be a ...