A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet — which could make it the smallest in the solar system — after new research revealed it’s shape, astronomers said on Monday.
Outer solar system experts find ‘far out there’ dwarf planet
Massively elongated orbit suggests object is influenced by theoretical giant Planet Nine in Oort Cloud region
A ring system has been found around a dwarf planet for the first time — the distant, potato-shaped Haumea, which lies beyond Neptune.
It’s the first object past Neptune in the solar system known to have debris circling it
That could tell us something really interesting about Earth.
The aptly named asteroid belt is a region of space between Mars and Jupiter that’s home to the majority of the asteroids in the solar system.
