Dwarf planet News

Ceres is an "ocean world" with a big reservoir of salty water under its frigid surface, scientists said in findings that raise interest in this dwarf planet as a possible outpost for life. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Research published on Monday based on data obtained by NASA`s Dawn spacecraft provides a new understanding of Ceres.

NASA and International Astronomical Union's official stand state Pluto is a dwarf planet.  

In a letter to the space agency, Cara O'Connor has asked NASA to 'fix this problem' for her and 'make Pluto a planet again.'

Scientists believe that Kwanzaa Tholus may have once been as prominent as Ahuna Mons, the tallest and most noticeable mountain on Ceres. 

 The researchers presented the latest results about the bright areas at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday.

They are one of the most puzzling feature types on Pluto, and it now appears the blades are related to Pluto’s complex climate and geological history.

In July 2015, NASA received the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons captured by New Horizons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds’ icy terrain might be like.

 The team uncovered the moon in archival images of 2007 OR10 taken by the Hubble Telescope.

The organics discovery was made by the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) onboard the Dawn spacecraft in and around a northern-hemisphere crater called Ernutet. 

Newly published studies from Dawn scientists show two distinct lines of evidence for ice at or near the surface of the dwarf planet.

Now, scientists have managed to uncover the origin of the large heart-shaped nitrogen glacier on Pluto!

As per NASA, Ceres has a special property called "hydrostatic equilibrium," which was confirmed in this study.

The US space agency NASA's Dawn has identified ice-friendly craters mapped on the dwarf planet Ceres.

A new study has revealed that the dwarf planet Pluto's interaction with the solar wind is unique.

It is all courtesy New Horizons, that NASA is able to provide viewers with amazing discoveries.  

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark Moon orbiting the dwarf planet Makemake.

Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles across and 2.5 miles deep, contains the brightest area on Ceres.

Dawn spacecraft has sent an image that shows cratered terrain in the northern hemisphere of Ceres. 

Scientists discovered what looks like a giant 'bite mark' on the Pluto's surface. 

In another image beamed back to NASA, New Horizons gives us another proof of Pluto's diversity in terms of its geological and compositional features, this time in an enhanced color image of the north polar area.