Pluto receives enough sunlight to be about as bright as midday on Earth during specific times, despite being a dwarf planet 7 ...

Using Pluto as an example, this celestial body, once considered the ninth planet, was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact stellar ember – that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans billions of years ago, offering potentially hospitable conditions ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research based on NASA's Dawn mission data suggests the dwarf planet Ceres, once deemed ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life ...