The findings have revealed a lot about Ceres' origin. The dwarf planet stands out from all the others in the asteroid belt.

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

This is both the largest sample of dwarf galaxies with active black holes ever seen and the largest haul of elusive intermediate-mass black holes ever collected. The data could help scientists ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot ... 2015 RR245 is catalogued as the "18th largest" object in the Kuiper belt, according to the Minor Planet Center, the organization ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

But the biggest confusion comes with the subtypes of the non-planets. If an object is large enough to make itself round but ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

Some measure hundreds of kilometres across. 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).

For more information on the biggest astronomical events of 2025, check out our celestial calendar. Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union ...