Dwarf Planet Haumea Shows Ring Systems Aren’t Just for the Biggest Worlds
Rings circle the solar system’s largest planets. Saturn has the most famous ring system, but Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are also home to rings of dust, ice, and rock. A…
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The Third Largest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System Isn’t Traveling Alone
Millions of miles beyond Pluto in the cold, dark regions of the Kuiper Belt sits another dwarf planet. This one doesn’t have a regular name yet. Astronomers call it 2007…
Why Scientists Keep Finding Dwarf Planets
8.5 billion miles away from the Sun sits a cold world bathed in darkness. Known as 2014 UZ224, it’s the latest dwarf planet to be discovered in recent years. Scientists…
Meet the Telescope That Just Discovered the Newest Dwarf Planet
You don’t need the latest and greatest telescope to make a discovery. In February, National Research Council of Canada’s Dr. JJ Kavelarrs was loing over a set of images taken…
How Dwarf Planet 2007 OR10 Stayed in the Shadows
The most sophisticated telescopes discover galaxies millions of light-years away. Kepler sees exoplanets hundreds of light-years away. Yet, our solar system holds secrets only now being uncovered. Before NASA’s New…
Meet V774104 – One of the Solar System’s Most Distant Objects
It to than 9 years for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to travel than 3 billion miles to Pluto. That’s nothing compared to a new dwarf planet just discovered…
Now What? NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Enters Ceres Orbit
NASA achieves another milestone. Its Dawn spacecraft has become the first to orbit a dwarf planet. Ceres’ gravity grabbed ahold of Dawn at 7:39 am EST on Friday. “Since its…
Dawn Gives Us Another Ceres Image. Another Look at Its Mysterious Bright Spots
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured another image of the dwarf planet, Ceres. You can see the bright spots featured prominently once again. Scientists aren’t sure what exactly it is, but we will be getting better resolution images as Dawn continues to get closer to Ceres.
Looking Good Ceres. Dawn Spacecraft Nears Dwarf Planet
Every day NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to the dwarf planet Ceres. As the distance closes, Dawn is giving us even better pictures of the largest asteroid belt object. The…
Dawn Approaches on Ceres
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is lining up its approach on the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s mission to Ceres has taken eight years and will culminate by entering Ceres orbit in March…