A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ...

It saw the discovery of dwarf planet Eris and how those very observations led to a new way to describe the Solar System and heralded the eventual change of Pluto’s planetary status. On that ...

In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...

Makemake shares our Solar System with four other dwarf planets; Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Pluto. Easily the most famous of the diminutive planets, Pluto was controversially downgraded to dwarf ...