When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newly found object may set a new record for the most distant dwarf planet in the solar ...

Our sun will one day become a white dwarf, as will more than 90% of the stars in our galaxy. Previous research found that white dwarfs can die in nuclear explosions known as type Ia supernovas.

A few streams on the Cumberland Plateau northeast of Chattanooga are the only places where a small freshwater fish called the laurel dace lives in the wild, so when drought struck the Southeast last ...

This new dwarf planet may exist at the edge of the solar system, possibly disproving Planet Nine's existence. This is the story of that newly encountered planet.

Dwarf Fortress, the byzantine and beloved colony simulation game, comes to Steam on Dec. 6.Tuesday’s announcement marks a major milestone for Bay 12 Games’ Tarn Adams and Zach Adams, who began ...

A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet – which could make it the smallest in the solar system – after new research revealed its shape, astronomers said on Monday.

A distant trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF 201, has been identified at the solar system's edge, potentially qualifying as a dwarf planet with an estimated diameter of 700 km.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its fuel (hydrogen and helium).

Dwarf Fortress hasn't been on Steam all that long, but it's already proven to be a colossal success. The colony management game has really been decades in the making, and in that time there have ...

Her journal was turned into a memoir she defiantly titled "Dwarf." In it, DiDonato chronicles her "no pain, no gain" view of life and how surprisingly grateful she is for the experience.