There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, ...
Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...
A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun ... The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in diameter (that's about the same ...
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...
The solar system has nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a dwarf planet, making the ...
Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...
In the Kuiper belt, a dark region extending far beyond Neptune, telescopes unveiled bunches of Plutinos—icy dwarf worlds ... together than the planets in our solar system. Some are Jupiter ...