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 ...

Related: Dwarf Planet Makemake: An Icy Wonder in Pictures Their great distance from the Sun —– Eris is currently 14.4 billion kilometers (8.9 billion miles) away and Makemake is 7.7 billion ...

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 ...

Makemake and Eris, which all orbit beyond Neptune. The organization defines a planet and a dwarf planet differently. A planet must orbit its host star - in our case the sun - and must be mostly ...

A study has confirmed that the dwarf planet Eris - whose discovery prompted Pluto's relegation from planet to dwarf - outranks it in mass. The US team, whose work is published in the journal Science, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are also five additional celestial bodies called dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say ...

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 ...