While almost everyone knows about Pluto being a dwarf planet, many are not aware that there are five others in our solar ...

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

The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres ... a field-of-view large enough to capture the entire planet It is about five times the distance from the Sun that Earth is ...

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

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...