Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the strange dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres currently resides in the main asteroid belt ...

A detailed exoplanet survey published in 2013 estimated that 41 percent of M-dwarf stars have a planet orbiting in their “Goldilocks” zone, the distance at which the planet has the right ...

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

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