New research on Ceres reveals hidden organic materials, suggesting subsurface reservoirs and internal energy sources.

Heavy hydrogen could be important in long-range detections of civilizations, says a pioneering astronomical study.

Researchers used data from NASA's Dawn mission to uncover new evidence of internal organic material reservoirs on Ceres, the ...

A new theory explains how dozens of mysterious planet pairs discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, dubbed "JuMBOs," may have formed.

NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest ...

A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only 3 million years old. And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside obscuring disks of debris, it is the ...

Stars are roiling, turbulent beasts, and there are intrinsic stellar characteristics ... Activity Masquerading as Planets in the Habitable Zone of the M Dwarf Gliese 581', Science, Vol 345 ...

To understand how planets evolve over time, astronomers must observe them as snapshots and then compare their properties at each stage. The transit method of planet detection, in which observers ...

This combined data set enabled the team to search for new binaries in clusters with characteristics resembling those of known white dwarf-main sequence pairs. Even though these types of binary ...

Color Image of Pluto: This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14. Charon| NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution ...