While almost everyone knows about Pluto being a dwarf planet, many are not aware that there are five others in our solar system. Makemake, Hauema, Cerces, and Eris.

Dwarf Planets as of Wed Apr 9 2025 there are: 10 objects which are nearly certainly dwarf planets, 27 objects which are highly likely to be dwarf planets, 68 objects which are likely to be dwarf ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

The five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union are, in order of distance from the sun: Ceres, which is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

From the scorching surface of Mercury to the icy edges of Neptune, our planetary neighborhood is full of wonders. The order of the planets isn’t just trivia—it tells a story about temperature, ...

Can rocky exoplanets orbiting stars smaller than our Sun support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of ...

The small, faraway world we call Quaoar is pretty peculiar. It is egg-shaped, and it also possesses a moon and two rings. In ...

Ceres is a small, cold dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but billions of years ago it could have ...

Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the latest additions to the Maine Solar System Model, billed as the largest solar system model in the western hemisphere.