Tagged: dwarf planet

– Haumea is considered the most peculiar of Pluto companions. The planet – one of the four known trans-Neptunian dwarf planets, discovered in 2003 – is a very elongated and rapidly rotating body located at the ends of the Solar System. The region is also...

Last year, scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission detected organic material on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. Now, a new analysis of the Dawn data by Brown University researchers suggests those patches may contain a much higher abundance of organics than originally thought. The...