The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

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

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 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.

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Timing: Dusk after sunset, but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven ...

An alignment of planets will be visible starting January 17. Venus and Saturn will appear within 2.2 degrees of each other. NASA says it's pretty rare to see four or five bright planets at once ...

That’s because Pluto was downgraded from a “planet” to a “dwarf planet” in 2016 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming ...

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