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

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

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

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre ... in smaller quantities -- other elements form the basic building blocks of all life. In recent years, researchers have found such molecules at great distances ...