The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...