The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

(See National Geographic’s first map of Pluto.) Then ... Pluto out of the club and into the newly defined category of dwarf planet. (Brown expanded on his reasoning in his aptly titled memoir ...

Dwarf planets are defined by having enough mass for ... "With modern instrumentation, it would be possible to map out not just the chemical compositions across their surfaces, but also the ...

A dwarf planet called Ceres could offer some amazing ... allowing the researchers to map potential organic-rich areas on Ceres that could have sustained life. These kinds of discoveries continue ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...

A color-enhanced view of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth, high­lights its Oc­ca­tor crater. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet ...

In fact, Ceres makes up 25% of the total mass of the asteroid belt. Still, Ceres remains a dwarf planet. Perhaps as it should, given Pluto's relegation to dwarf planet — Pluto is 14 times larger ...