Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

according to NASA. In August 2006 the International Astronomical Union General Assembly adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy one of ...

When we have five or more planets filing into a small sky area, an alignment is upgraded to parade status. Parade is not an ...

He called this hypothetical world "Planet X." "In some ways, Pluto's more of a planet than some of the other established planets, like Mercury." ...

was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet because it doesn't meet all the criteria for full ...

Alongside Pluto, Eris was also classified as a dwarf planet under the new criteria ... the principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission, which explored Pluto in 2015.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute With Pluto's "demotion" to dwarf planet status, it’s understandable that the IAU faced criticism ...

And it’s as a dwarf planet that Pluto is taught to students today. Members of the media garbed in protective uniforms view NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Nov. 4 2005, at the Kennedy Space ...

And it’s as a dwarf planet that Pluto is taught to students today. But Pluto has in many ways only grown in ... “I don’t quite know why I suggested it,” Venetia said in a 2006 interview with NASA. “My ...

Pluto is still classified as a dwarf planet. Despite ongoing debate and ... on geological activity rather than orbital mechanics. NASA’s New Horizons mission revealed ice mountains, glaciers ...