When the vote passed, Pluto was no longer considered a planet and instead became the most famous dwarf planet in the solar ...

New computer simulations show how a now-frozen ocean of water mixed with dirt and rock could explain geological features on ...

As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...

Quaoar is the fifth dwarf planet from the Sun, in the Kuiper belt, located in the Kuiper belt, one of the outermost regions of the Solar System. Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the ...

Analysis finds that the mini-world Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is progressively filled with impurities farther from the ...

Astrobiologists have wondered if simple, microbial life could exist on Ceres, the closest frozen ocean world to Earth at an ...

Recent studies suggest that the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may have once contained a muddy ocean beneath its surface. This new understanding ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Was Ceres born in the main asteroid belt, or did it migrate there from the outer solar system? The answer is buried in data ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater bear witness to dwarf planet Ceres' cryovolcanic past - and revive the debate about its place of origin. Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual “inhabitant” of the ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television series "The Expanse," Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so ...