Latest about Dwarf Planets
Hunt for the names of mysterious dwarf planets, most of which orbit on the fringes of our solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world.
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar."
"'Oumuamua is in a different category of object. It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them."
Even if life never took hold on Ceres, the discovery could help broaden the range of environments that could potentially be habitable.
Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!
A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
