The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

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Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

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

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

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

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the ...

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago. A Max Planck team used AI to ...