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," ...

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

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...

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 ...

This all changed when the world’s tiniest bundle of adorable appeared in the hobby. The Dwarf Indian puffers, also known as Pygmy puffers and Malabar puffers, Carinotetraodon travancoricus, were a ...

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 ...