They got kicked out soon, but then when we started being able to see asteroids, Ceres, Vesta ... And if you are still a Pluto-is-a-planet holdout, like we were, [Michael]’s argument that ...

much as Ceres had seemed before the other asteroids were discovered. But then, starting in 1995, astronomers with better instruments began to find Pluto's nearby relatives. Soon, they had ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

It is second in size only to asteroid Ceres, which is 580 miles (940 km ... Several, including EB173, are much larger. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. Many astronomers believe ...

However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris were the only five that we knew about up until very recently. Ceres is in the asteroid belt between Mars ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

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it’s understandable that the IAU faced criticism from the public for redefining a "planet" in such a way that seemed almost ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.