Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2076, the dwarf planet Sedna will make its closest approach ...

Computer simulations show that planets could be flung out of the inner solar system, supporting the possible existence of a ...

The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1. Makemake is one of many icy worlds that orbit the Sun past Neptune.

On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate that the tiny world, which is about 45 times further from the sun than ...

The recent study of the dwarf planets Eris and Makemake reveals that they could be compatible with the emergence of extraterrestrial life. The dwarf planets of the Solar System, such as Ceres, Haumea, ...

While Eris is roughly the same size as Pluto and Makemake is about the same size as Pluto’s moon, Charon, both dwarf planets are far beyond even Pluto’s icy corner of the Solar System.

Data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope shows that, like Pluto, the dwarf planets Eris and Makemake could be geologically active, which changes what we know about their chances of ...

The dwarf planets in question, Eris and Makemake, are both found in the Kuiper Belt past Neptune's orbit and are far from the Sun's warmth, similar to fellow dwarf planet Pluto.

Active geology—and the large-scale chemistry it can drive—requires significant amounts of heat. Dwarf planets near the far edges of the Solar System, like Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects ...