This cool space wallpaper of an artist's impression shows the distant dwarf planet Eris. New observations have shown that Eris is smaller than previously thought and almost exactly the same size ...

This artist's impression shows the distant dwarf planet ... rendering of Eris, announced in July 2005 by Mike Brown of Caltech. It is more massive than Pluto. The sun is in the background.

However, this isn’t just any phone background; it’s a custom designed planet wallpaper that’s created using some of their personal photos. By using a photo editing app, users are morphing ...

Eris, the largest dwarf planet in our solar system ... on the size of Eris by observing it as it passed in front of a background star, a technique called stellar occultation.

Eris passed in front of a faint background star from Earth's perspective. This event, known as an occultation, provided a rare opportunity for astronomers to learn about the dwarf planet.

The dwarf planet Eris is one ... researchers were able to observe Eris and collect the new data about it by predicting when it would pass in front of a faint background star.

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 ...

A distant, icy rock whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto's planetary demise has been given a name: Eris. The christening of Eris, named after the Greek goddess of chaos and ...

In November 2010, Eris passed in front of a faint background star from Earth's perspective. This event, known as an occultation, provided a rare opportunity for astronomers to learn about the dwarf ...

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 ...