The findings have revealed a lot about Ceres' origin. The dwarf planet stands out from all the others in the asteroid belt. It is the largest planetary body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot ... 2015 RR245 is catalogued as the "18th largest" object in the Kuiper belt, according to the Minor Planet Center, the organization ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail down their respective masses, a new study reports. The Kuiper ...

Some measure hundreds of kilometres across. The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in diameter (that's about the same the length as Great Britain).

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.