On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

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Deep in the outer solar system, billions of miles from Earth, lurks a realm of small, icy worlds called dwarf planets. Astronomers know relatively little about these dim and distant objects, but in ...

Strange hexagonal diamonds may have been jettisoned into space when a dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid around 4.5 billion years ago. A new model exploring the dwarf planet Ceres suggests ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

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Ceres, the only dwarf planet in our inner solar system, is covered in ice and salt deposits. Its daytime temperatures range from a frigid minus 136 degrees to minus 28 degrees Fahrenheit. “Looking at ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...