What is a brown dwarf star? These formations often defy classification, blurring the line between planets and stars.

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

Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

As we celebrate the English composer’s 150th anniversary, we reflect on ten of the best works he wrote, including The Planets ...