As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

It saw the discovery of dwarf planet Eris and how those very observations ... of dwarf planets and made a lot of people angry. Still, kids in school now learn that the Solar System is not just ...

University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Planetary Sciences Francis Nimmo recently co-authored a Science Advances paper about the internal structure of the dwarf planet Eris. Eris is about ...

The dwarf planets of Eris and Makemake, situated in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune, may have geothermal activity beneath their surfaces, according to two new papers in the journal Icarus.

WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Dwarf planet Eris, similar in size to its better-known cosmic cousin Pluto, has remained an enigma since being discovered in 2005 lurking in the solar system's far ...

While almost everyone knows about Pluto being a dwarf planet, many are not aware that there are five others in our solar system. Makemake, Hauema, Cerces, and Eris. In addition, there are many ...

Kids in school are learning about the eight planets and the ... orbiting any star or brown dwarf, and having a mass higher than 10 23 kilograms. Pluto and Eris remain excluded, but maybe it ...

A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity deep within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake (artistic illustration). Located in the ...

Active geology—and the large-scale chemistry it can drive—requires significant amounts of heat. Dwarf planets near the far edges of the Solar System, like Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects ...

University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Planetary Sciences Francis Nimmo recently co-authored a Science Advances paper about the internal structure of the dwarf planet Eris. Eris is ...