A NEWLY identified dwarf planet named after a Greek goddess may be the smallest in our Solar System. Dubbed Hygiea, the mysterious world sits in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars and measu… ...

The asteroid, named Hygeia, is the fourth-largest object orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, after the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroids Vesta and Pallas.

Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, and Pluto are expected to have a new friend, Hygiea, inducted into our solar system’s dwarf planet club. Hygiea was long believed to be a large asteroid in the ...

The observations have shown that Hygeia could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is said to be the fourth-largest asteroid in the belts behind Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

However, it now seems that there is another body in the Main Belt that has earned the designation of “dwarf planet”. Using data from the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) ...

A rock at the far reaches of our solar system might actually be a dwarf planet, scientists have said. New research – using the Very Large Telescope in northern Chile – has shown that Hygiea ...

Because this work shows that Hygiea conforms well to the definition of a Dwarf Planet, the team will request official recognition that the asteroid is a dwarf planet. The team will make this request ...

A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet -- which could make it the smallest in the solar system -- after new research revealed it's shape, astronomers said on Monday.

3 If Pallas, Vesta, and/or Hygeia are found to be in hydrostatic equilibrium, they are also planets, and may be referred to as "dwarf planets".