When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new face has been added to the solar system's family portrait: Scientists have discovered a new ...

Astronomers from the University of Michigan have identified a new dwarf planet orbiting in the outer reaches of our solar system. The new object, called 2014 UZ224, is the farthest dwarf planet ...

Ever since Pluto was fatefully downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet, our celestial backyard has become quite semantically confounding. A newly discovered object only adds to this cosmic ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of our solar system, the planetary body 2014 ...

An image of the dwarf planet Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft just 15 minutes after its closest approach on July 14, 2015. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Astronomers have identified a new dwarf ...

An artist's conception of the view from the dwarf planet Sedna. David Gerdes of the University of Michigan says the surface of 2014 UZ224 would look much the same. Scientists in Michigan have found a ...

It is a dark and lonely region of space far beyond where our own spacecraft have explored. But there is far more lurking in the frozen, distant reaches of our solar system than previously realised.

Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea have another possible candidate to consider for their dwarf planet squad. A team of researchers have discovered the new, tiny candidate deep within the Kuiper ...