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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations of a brown dwarf known as HD 206893 B. Results of the observational ...

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

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

Telescopes don't come any smaller than the Dwarf 3, but does its portability come at the cost of image quality? Read the ...

Read A sky chart showing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On most ...

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