New Dwarf Planet Has Most Distant Trajectory KnownAlexandra WitzeNature magazine
New Dwarf Planet Found in Our Solar SystemCalla Cofield,SPACE.com
The dwarf planet Ceres, once thought to be a dead and static rock, may have water cycles.Observations from the Dawn spacecrafthave shown a crater wall becoming icier as the sun’s position changed in the sky over the course of six months, indicating that subsurface ice particles ...
A new set of color-coded maps released by NASA is offering amazing views and fresh data on thedwarf planet Ceres. One map shows more than a dozen recently approvednames for features on Ceres, all based on agricultural spirits, deities and festivals from cultures around the world. These includ...
The dwarf planet Eris’s icy surface may have changed in the last few years (Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The surface of the largest known‘plutoid’appears to have changed in recent years, according to new measurements of how elements are layered on its icy surface. But astronomers cannot...
They are three words that soon will never be able to be used to describe the dwarf planet Pluto again — and they are about to witness their own expiration. "Not yet explored." The phrase appears on the bottom of a 1991 29-cent U.S. stamp flying on New H
After spending several weeks in the shadow of Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is finally getting a close-up glimpse of the dwarf planet. Ceres' cratered north pole blazes through the darkness in new images captured by Dawn on April 10. The photos are the highest-resolution views of the worl...
If you thought the scientific community had put a lid on this categorization brouhaha, you were wildly mistaken. The definition of a dwarf planet is fairly cut and dry. To be considered a dwarf planet, the object must orbit the sun, it must have enough mass to assume a roundish shape, ...
Launched on January 18, 2006, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has helped scientists understand worlds at the edge of our solar system by visiting the dwarf planetPluto(its primary mission) and then venturing farther out for a flyby of the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth, a double-lobed relic ...
News By Harry Baker published July 3, 2024 Astronomers have just discovered two dwarf galaxy candidates orbiting our galaxy. The orientation of these entities suggests there could be up to 500 similar stellar clusters circling the Milky Way, which is more than double previous ...