A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along with a brown dwarf, each distantly orbiting stars smaller than the sun. Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A four-year-old boy's curiosity about planets has inspired him to write his first children's book. Viaan Mundeja-Gupta, who ...