The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

One of these dwarf planets actually orbits in between Mars ... Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon, yet it still manages to have five moons of its own. Their names are Styx, Nix, Kerberos, Hydra ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white dwarf ...

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 ...

Roughly 1.5 times the diameter of Jupiter but containing only 14 ... is a fascinating celestial object that blurs the line between planet and brown dwarf. With an estimated mass of about 12.7 times ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot about ... Miriam Kramer Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all ...

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 ...

Hygiea, classified as an asteroid so far, might actually be a dwarf planet. The European Southern Observatory has been able to confirm that Hygiea has a spherical shape. But, Hygiea is missing a ...