The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
The simulations illustrated how the dwarf planet's craters change shape over the course of billions of years. They included ...
Ever since NASA's New Horizons sent back the first-ever photos of Pluto in 2015, the dwarf planet's mysterious heart ... roughly the size of Arizona from north to south. Pluto was discovered ...
Since then, scientists have classified it as a dwarf planet because of its size and distinct composition, setting it apart ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...
Quaoar is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt ... which is approximately half the size of Pluto. Researchers have also found that it has water ice on its surface and has signs of cryovolcanism.