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 ...

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 enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before.

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

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...