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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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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,…
Meet V774104 – One of the Solar System’s Most Distant Objects
It took more than 9 years for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to travel more than 3 billion miles…
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…
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…
Dawn Approaches on Ceres
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is lining up its approach on the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s mission to Ceres has…