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

The dwarf planet ... reached the inner Solar System only later. For the current study, the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres.

These bodies are thought to be largely unaltered remnants from the early days of the Solar System ... the scientific camera system and the spectrometer on board scanned the entire surface of the dwarf ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of ... conditions could have arisen in the solar system. Organic molecules are among the necessary ...

Enaiposha orbits a red dwarf star 47 light years away from our own Earth, upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet ... Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany in a statement. "But our ...

When you buy through links on our articles ... for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany in a statement. "But our results show otherwise." Ceres was explored by NASA's Dawn mission, which arrived ...

That’s because Pluto was downgraded from a “planet” to a “dwarf planet” in 2016 by ... that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...