03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... team that discovered it (its official name is 2014 UZ224), DeeDee is surpassed in distance only by the dwarf planet Eris – the ninth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun. Found in a region that begins at ...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
...the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. Ceres might seem ... although it is a rather uncommon element on asteroids, the dwarf planet Ceres has nitrogen. The exact amount is not known, but ...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
...March 6), becoming the first probe ever to visit a dwarf planet. Dawn is currently spiraling down to its first science orbit...building blocks of the solar system, or at least the terrestrial planets. You can think of the Earth as mainly being built out...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... has always earmarked it as something of an oddball amongst its larger planetary companions (hence its downgraded status to that of a dwarf planet) and trying to study its chemical history has always been challenging due to the lack of relevant data...
22 June 2015
First “movie” of dancing Pluto
...system – by revealing the strange “dance” that Pluto, the dwarf planet, does with its largest moon. What’s interesting about the animation...first discovered. It was demoted to the status of dwarf planet in 2006, after further research of the solar ...
13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
... between Mars and Jupiter: giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. This truly interplanetary spaceship first explored the giant... of the outer Solar System. Ceres was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 due to its massive size and since Dawn’s ...
