Quaoar is part of a collection of about 3,000 dwarf planets known as trans-Neptunian objects, which are beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune. Latest U.S.

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Makemake is the third-largest known dwarf planet in our solar system, after Pluto and Eris, with a diameter of 888 miles across. It takes about 309 years to orbit the sun.

Red dwarf stars, also called M dwarf or M-type star, the most numerous type of star in the universe and the smallest type of hydrogen-burning star. Red dwarf stars have masses from about 0.08 to 0.6 ...

The dwarf planets in question, Eris and Makemake, are both found in the Kuiper Belt past Neptune's orbit and are far from the Sun's warmth, similar to fellow dwarf planet Pluto.

A planet orbiting one of these exotic objects would need to be about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from the white dwarf — about 1% of the distance from Earth to the sun — to be warm ...

All 19 detections of the dwarf planet 2017 OF201, from August 2011 to October 2018. Credit... Cheng et al., arxiv.org, 2025. By Kenneth Chang.