OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

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 ...

Strange hexagonal diamonds may have been jettisoned into space when a dwarf planet collided with a large ... the lonsdaleite to retain the shape and texture of graphite. Eventually, as the ...

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.

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...