Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun have discovered a new planet in the constellation of the Great Bear. It has a mass as much as 11 times that of Jupiter, orbits its star ...

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Even the asteroid Ceres, currently located in the constellation of Sagittarius and classified as a dwarf planet with a ...

The four largest objects in the belt are Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. Ceres is the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. Gaps in the asteroid belt, called Kirkwood gaps, correspond to ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

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Ceres’s surface is ice-rich and warm, so we expect craters to viscously flow. Yet most of Ceres’s craters are not shallow. A new model that includes a stronger, progressively dirtier icy crust ...

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