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

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

Ceres, the only dwarf planet in our inner solar system, is covered in ice and salt deposits. Its daytime temperatures range ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," said Silvia Protopapa, lead author, in a statement. "The Webb telescope has ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...

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