The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Dwarf planet Pluto ... They emerge from the farthest reaches of the solar system, way beyond the orbit of Neptune, then zip past the sun before disappearing again for centuries.

In recent years, researchers have found such molecules at great distances from the Sun: on trans-Neptunian objects ... looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres.

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that might have favorable conditions for liquid water. This planet, HD 20794 d, ...

It is located in a star system less than 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest candidates for further research.

Astronomers have discovered another exoplanet that may have favourable conditions for the existence of liquid water. We are ...