For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

There are also five additional celestial bodies called dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

As Pluto spends his first weekend back on his own ... It was only last week that the Sun left and earlier in the week that ...

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The now-operational New Frontiers missions include New Horizons, which began in 2006 and explored Pluto in 2015 ... are the Centaur Orbiter and Lander, Ceres Sample Return, Comet Surface Sample ...

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However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris were the only five that we knew about up until very recently. Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet in your ...

Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt ... It is a trans-Neptunian object in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. Ceres is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between ...

There are also five additional celestial bodies called dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say The ...

There are currently six recognized dwarf planets: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, and 2015 RR 245 (which does not have an official “name” yet, as of 2022). If we were just talking about ...