Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public demotion from ninth planet of the solar system two decades ago. But a relatively obscure dwarf planet in the main asteroid ...

The tiny dwarf planet has continued to baffle scientists ... One of those tricks includes a massive ice volcano called Ahuna Mons that spews boiling salt water. Published alongside six other ...

The dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A new study has found that its crust ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot about ... Pluto to be a surprisingly geologically active place with ice mountains and expansive, open plains. It's possible that 2015 ...

Jupiter could be labeled a “gas giant planet,” while Pluto and Xena could be “ice dwarf planets.” “Pluto is not worthy of being called just a plain planet,” said Alan Boss, an ...

Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical ... NASA’s New Horizons mission revealed ice mountains, glaciers and possible subsurface oceans, proving ...

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has shown that a planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf—one of the dimmest ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white dwarf is the result of a planet being ripped apart and devoured by the dying ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

There are two ice giants (Uranus and Neptune ... The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in diameter (that's about the same the length as Great Britain).