WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Dwarf planet Eris, similar in size to its better-known cosmic cousin Pluto, has remained an enigma since being discovered in 2005 lurking in the solar system's far ...

University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Planetary Sciences Francis Nimmo recently co-authored a Science Advances paper about the internal structure of the dwarf planet Eris. Eris is about ...

Back in 2006 it was actually thought to be larger than Pluto and it had been thought that Eris could officially get planet-status at the IAU meeting. However, with several other candidate objects ...

After its discovery in 1930, Pluto was declared the ninth planet in our solar system and ... crashed the party upon discovering Eris, similar in size to Pluto and also in the Kuiper belt, calling ...

In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...

discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring of icy objects beyond Neptune’s orbit that also happens to be the former ninth planet’s neighborhood. The 2005 ...

Eris, and Makemake. Yet one of its most interesting oddities is the dwarf planet, Haumea. Though it was discovered less than two decades ago, information about the dwarf planet is sparse as Earth ...

No longer a planet but not forgotten ... been discovered in the years since Pluto’s reclassification, including Eris, Haumea and Makemake, all of which have their own moons, according to ...

In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...