The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1.

The changing faces of Pluto| This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as ...

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Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet ...

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

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

Mapping Pluto Broken Heart | This image was taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the morning ...

On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate that the tiny world, which is about 45 times further from the sun than ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

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 ...