On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

NASA has taken a surprising new look at a white dwarf star called EX Hydrae, revealing details that astronomers have never ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

The researchers said 2017 OF201 was identified in observations by telescopes in Chile and Hawaii spanning seven years. Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered a small moon orbiting an icy dwarf planet in the distant reaches of our solar system. MK 2 is 100 miles in diameter and is at least 13,000 miles from ...

Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet, lost its planet status in 2006. Learn more about dwarf planets of the solar system here. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been granted a mission extension that will ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

Spots were speculated to be everything from alien cities to geysers. — -- Scientists have finally cracked the mystery of the unexplained lights on the dwarf planet Ceres that were speculated to ...

A new color movie combines more than 100 images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during the probe's historic Pluto flyby in the summer of 2015. The dwarf planet Ceres still holds pockets of ice ...