The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system ... but things may ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.

Strange hexagonal diamonds may have been jettisoned into space when a dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid around 4.5 billion years ago. A new model exploring the dwarf planet Ceres ...

Ceres is a small, cold dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but billions of years ago it could have ...

What can young planets teach astronomers about the formation and evolution of planets throughout the cosmos? This is what two ...

Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet, may have been more than just a cold, distant world. NASA's findings reveal a past where ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which orbited Ceres between 2015 and 2018, previously revealed some surprises about this frozen ...

Articles and information about dwarf planets from The New York Times.

A young planet is so close to its parent star that it experiences a consistent blast of energy which evaporates its hydrogen atmosphere, according to NASA.

A new study by Manuel Barrientos and colleagues from the University of Oklahoma reveals that between 0.6% and 2.5% of white dwarfs in our solar neighborhood undergo dramatic cooling delays that could ...