When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of confirmed dwarf planets and their moons. From left to right: Pluto (with ...

The New Horizons Pluto flyby revealed unexpectedly complex geological features on dwarf planets, prompting further investigation into the diversity within the Kuiper Belt. Several dwarf planets, ...

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Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / ...

"It's very rare to discover an object both large and with an exotic orbit." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A potential new dwarf ...

While both planets would likely be locked into a synchronous orbit—with a permanent dayside and a perpetual nightside—the ultrafast white dwarf planet's rotation stretches out the cloud circulation ...

Small red stars make up three out of every four stars in the galaxy, and many host planets. Credit: Johns Hopkins APL illustration Perhaps surprisingly, the majority of stars in the galaxy are not sun ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on whom ...