When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of confirmed dwarf planets and their moons. From left to right: Pluto (with ...

Ceres is rich with water, the Dawn spacecraft finds. What can this mean for finding life on other worlds? Ceres is the largest dwarf planet in the inner solar system, and new findings from the Dawn ...

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 ...

"'Oumuamua is in a different category of object. It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

First detected in 2004, the dwarf planetHaumeaquickly stood out due to its rapid rotation and elongated form. But the 2017 ...

HONOLULU A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system has been given a Hawaiian name: Haumea, after the Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility. Haumea's name was approved Wednesday by the ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...