A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers reveal. A new study finds that Ceres, which sits in the asteroid belt between ...

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

Ceres, we think, is therefore the most accessible icy world in the universe.' The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the largest object in the ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt, still harbors many secrets. Recent discoveries could reshape our understanding of this mysterious celestial object. Computer simulations suggest ...

On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate that the tiny world, which is about 45 times further from the sun than ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

Astronomers from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in Australia and elsewhere have reinvestigated a planetary ...

Gliese 229 B, discovered in 1995, is a binary system of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other, in orbit around their parent red dwarf star.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) famously demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a ...

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