Nobody was using the term Dwarf Planet until 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had a vote to redefine what ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...

However, a new study suggests that two of the farthest flung celestial bodies—the dwarf planets Makemake and Eris ... was ...

They found that the supposed brown dwarf is a massive super-Jovian planet. The finding was reported October 10 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Brown dwarfs (BDs ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

Life might be common for red dwarf worlds after all. More information: X C Abrevaya et al, An experimental study of the ...

Dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres are also suspected of having an underground ocean, as are some of the moons of Uranus. “We know that the presence of liquid water is essential for life,” said Ojha.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A dwarf planet called Ceres could offer some amazing insights into our quest to ...

A dwarf planet thought to have some ice mixed in with its dirty surface may have a lot more cool than we ever expected. Ceres – the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – could ...