Two nearly-identically sized worlds — Eris and Pluto — float distantly in the same frozen region of our outer solar system. A NASA spacecraft has visited Pluto, but not Eris, and each is so distant ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just slightly smaller than Pluto, and it orbits the sun about three times farther ...

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A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity deep within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake (artistic illustration). Located in the Kuiper ...

Three times more distant from the Sun than Pluto (almost 10 billion miles), Eris is the largest dwarf planet in the Solar System. It takes Eris more than twice as long to orbit the Sun as Pluto (about ...

It's far out, man – literally. Researchers have uncovered the most-distant celestial object in the solar system, a pink dwarf planet nicknamed "Farout," detect at a distance of more than 100 times ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Die-hard Pluto fans still seeking redemption for their demoted planet have cause for despair this week. New data shows that the dwarf planet Eris is 27 percent more massive than Pluto ...

Icy rocks in the outer solar system might have unexpected subsurface oceans. Eris and Makemake are both dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt – the ring of frozen objects that encircles our solar system ...

In the solar system’s dark hinterlands, well beyond the orbit of Pluto, lie Eris and Makemake—two primeval, Lilliputian icy worlds that see the sun as a diamantine speck. Each world’s surface ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has teamed up with the W.M. Keck Observatory to precisely measure the mass of Eris, the largest member of a new class of dwarf planets in our solar system. Eris is 1.27 ...

SwRI scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to model the subsurface geothermal processes that could explain how methane ended up on the surfaces of Eris and Makemake, two dwarf ...

Full Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNO079G1i8 Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Outer Solar System Exploring Space Lecture webcast live on Tuesday ...