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Pluto, dwarf planet with heart-shaped feature

The dwarf planet is apparently displaying some Mars-like behavior.

The football-shaped dwarf planet Haumea, which is surrounded by an almost perfectly circular ring of particles, is the most distant ringed object in the solar system. Haumea's ring is too faint to be seen

The solar system has a new distance champ. Astronomers just found an object that lies 140 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. That's 140 times the Earth-sun distance, which is about 93 million miles

Saturn's rings are disappearing, a possible pink dwarf planet lies beyond Pluto's orbit and a faraway gas-giant world the size of Neptune is rapidly evaporating. These are just some of the top stories

The wobbly surface of dwarf planet Ceres has shifted over the years, resulting an epic makeover of ridges and cracks, scientists say.

Image Source    Ceres pictured by the Dawn spacecraft in May 2015 Ceres is the largest dwarf planet in the asteroid belt that lies slightly near the orbit of Mars than Jupiter. The diameter

You may have seen the bizarre bright spots speckling the dwarf planet Ceres — but not like this.

On the dwarf planet Ceres, organic molecules are more abundant than scientists originally suspected.

A NASA spacecraft is about to get up close and personal with Ceres, a giant asteroid that also happens to be the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system.

Eris, a distant world whose discovery led to Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet, was once proposed as the solar system's 10th planet.

Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet, lost its planet status in 2006. Learn more about dwarf planets of the solar system here.

New observations reveal that the far-flung object 2014 UZ224 (informally known as DeeDee, for "Distant Dwarf") is about 395 miles (635 kilometers) wide — big enough to claim "dwarf planet"