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 ...

Gaia-4b is a planet orbiting the star called Gaia-4, around 244 light-years away. Gaia-4b is about twelve times more massive ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A four-year-old boy's curiosity about planets has inspired him to write his first children's book. Viaan Mundeja-Gupta, who ...