Was Ceres born in the main asteroid belt, or did it migrate there from the outer solar system? The answer is buried in data ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day ...

IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar objects are the most puzzling feature of ...

Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

Brown, who is among the co-discoverers of Sedna, told the publication, “Some of our earlier hypotheses, before we realized ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

Data from NASA's Dawn space probe calls into question assumptions about the origin of Ceres in the outer solar system. The ...

Jupiter" exoplanet called 2M1207b, precisely 20 years ago this week. This was the first direct visual confirmation of a world ...

If you are going to look for intelligent life beyond Earth, there are few better candidates than the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

When the International Astronomical Union announced in 2006 that Pluto was being demoted from its status as the Sun's ninth ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...