On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

Eris is the largest dwarf planet in the Solar System, and the ninth largest body orbiting our Sun. Sometimes referred to as the “tenth planet,” its discovery is responsible for upsetting the ...

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 ...

The small icy worlds on the edge of our solar system may be better contenders for life than we first thought, scientists have found. The dwarf planets of Eris and Makemake, situated in the Kuiper Belt ...

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 ...

Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO), orbiting the Sun in a region of space known as the scattered disc, just beyond the Kuiper belt, and ...

PLUTO may have water, according to a new study which could massively boost the chances of finding alien life within our solar system. New research suggests that distant worlds such as Pluto and others ...

(Above: An artist concept of the dwarf planet Eris. The sun is the small star in the distance. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech) (WHTM) — In 2005 the team of Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz ...

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 ...