In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

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 ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

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 ...