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

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

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

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

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

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

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

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

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 ...