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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers based at the University of Vienna and the Space Research Institute of the ÖAW in Graz have calculated how quickly an M dwarf could lay waste to a rocky planet's atmosphere.