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

When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it surprised a lot of people, including some scientists. Even many years later, some ...

Dwarf planets may be small, but they offer big clues about the history and evolution of our solar system, continuing to intrigue scientists with each discovery. Photo Credit: NASA 5 things ...

The definition was seen as a demotion of Pluto from the category of planet to the category of dwarf planet, but it also meant that celestial bodies considered to be minor suddenly became popular.

Although the photo does show Pluto, the colors within it appear to have been enhanced. On May 20, 2024, X account @MAstronomers posted a colorful image of a celestial object and claimed it showed ...

The IAU reclassified Pluto as a “dwarf planet.” According to NASA, “Pluto is a dwarf planet located in a distant region of our solar system beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt.

The outer reaches of the Solar System, known as the Kuiper belt, is often seen as an icy wasteland and its dwarf planets perfectly preserve the priomordial ice of the early Solar System.

There are five confirmed dwarf planets in the solar system: Ceres, Haumea, Eris, Makemake and the ex-planet Pluto.All of these planetary pretenders, apart from Ceres, are located in or around the ...

The remaining two-thirds of the planets around these ubiquitous small stars are likely roasted by gravitational tides, sterilizing them. Red dwarf stars, also called M dwarf or M-type star, the most ...

The European Space Agency’s CHEOPS telescope usually searches for planets outside our solar system, but recently it made a discovery closer to home: a large ring around the dwarf planet Quaoar ...

The dwarf planet Quaoar, which sits beyond Neptune in our solar system, appears to have a ring of debris around it that is much further out than was thought possible. “We have observed a ring th ...

The research team has confirmed that they have found lonsdaleite, a rare hexagonal form of diamond in ureilite meteorites from the mantle of the dwarf planet ... shape of the texture of the ...