The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres ... a field-of-view large enough to capture the entire planet It is about five times the distance from the Sun that Earth is ...

The findings could also change what we know about dwarf planets in general. There are five confirmed dwarf planets in the solar system: Ceres, Haumea, Eris, Makemake and the ex-planet Pluto.

Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon ... Christy had been imaging Pluto with the USNO's 1.5-meter (4.9-foot) telescope. Because Pluto is so far from the ...

Sep. 12, 2022 — Strange diamonds from an ancient dwarf planet in our solar system may have formed shortly after the dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid about 4.5 billion years ago ...