There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, agriculture, and harvests. Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to the sun.

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This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot about ... Miriam Kramer Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all ...

The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres ... a field-of-view large enough to capture the entire planet It is about five times the distance from the Sun that Earth is ...

5 (UPI) --On this date in history ... It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...

To do it, he developed a model that simulated an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf. He modeled the orbiting Earth-like planet as the habitable zone devolved, noting how much energy it ...