The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres ... a field-of-view large enough to capture the entire planet It is about five times the distance from the Sun that Earth is ...

Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was ...

Of the five dwarf planets in the Solar System – including Eris, Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea – Pluto is easily the best-known due to its brief categorization as a regular planet. Long before it ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

January 5, 2005, is an astronomical anniversary that is not really marked but should be. It saw the discovery of dwarf planet ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

5 (UPI) --On this date in history ... It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal ...

Research found that the scar developed after white dwarf ingested the surrounding planets and asteroids which ... something our Sun will become in about five billion years. When a star dies ...