Beyond the familiar planets lies a fascinating frontier filled with icy worlds, mysterious orbits, and cosmic curiosities.

Gonggong was discovered in 2007 after the dwarf planet name change, but it wasn't confirmed until some new observations from NASA telescopes in 2016. The IAU is still considering proposals on ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her ...

Scientific analysis revealed the geological and chemical nature of a mysterious and mesmerizing extraterrestrial scenery.

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...

Eris is the largest dwarf planet in the solar system, larger than Pluto, and orbits at an average distance of 6,289,000,000 miles away from the sun, about 68 times further out than the Earth.

A planet far, far away A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was ...

All 19 detections of the dwarf planet 2017 OF201, from August 2011 to October 2018. Cheng et al., arxiv.org, 2025 ...

If the methane on these dwarf planets' surfaces had been accreted from the primordial planet-forming disk that existed around the young sun 4.5 billion years ago, they would contain a certain ...