Our Solar System is home to many unique planetary bodies, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Here are the unique ...

Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have detected something very unique in Makemake, a dwarf planet beyond Neptune in the ...

A new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, has been found with a vast orbit and potential dwarf planet size. The finding hints at more hidden bodies beyond Neptune. A research team led by Sihao Cheng a ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

WASHINGTON >> Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...