Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

The dwarf planet's orbit is such an elongated ellipse that it takes around 25,000 years to make one orbit of our sun. At its closest, it sits approximately 6.66 billion kilometers away from the sun.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

The dwarf planet also has one provisional moon, which is nicknamed MK 2. Discovery: March 31, 2005. Size: 888 miles in diameter (1/9 the size of Earth) Distance from sun: 4.3 billion miles.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

Dwarf planets are big this month. Writing for Space.com, Starry Night Education's Geoff Gaherty points out that two of the best-known dwarf planets, Pluto and Ceres, are in prime positions for ...

Red dwarf stars, also called M dwarf or M-type star, the most numerous type of star in the universe and the smallest type of hydrogen-burning star. Red dwarf stars have masses from about 0.08 to 0.6 ...

A dwarf planet called 50000 Quaoar that orbits beyond Neptune appears to have a ring that shouldn't be there, at 7.4 times more distant than the planet's radius.

There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven planets total.

The dwarf planet is slightly smaller than Pluto, and is the second-brightest object in the Kuiper Belt as seen from Earth. Makemake takes about 305 Earth years to make one trip around the Sun. Apophis ...

There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven planets total.