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

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

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 ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago. A Max Planck team used AI to ...