For centuries, humanity has gazed at the stars in the night sky, wondering if planets beyond our solar system exist. In the past few decades, technology has given us the ability to find them.

Dubbed HD 20794 d (because HD 20794 is the name of its star and it is accompanied by two previously announced planetary siblings, HD 20794 b and HD 20794 c), this planet is at least as massive as ...

Credit: NASA/JPL Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres’ cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over whether the dwarf planet formed in the asteroid belt or ...

Today: Let’s review three important sets of three cats. There’s Josie, Valerie, and Melody of Josie and the Pussycats. Felix, Tom, and Sylvester from old-time cartoons.

then you really should at least include Eris as well, and once you’ve set that particular precedent, you’ll find it necessary to include a lot of other dwarf planets. Without a firm lower ...

Eris is three times more distant than Pluto. And its relationship to Pluto — a world demoted since 2006 from the solar system’s ninth planet to a lowly dwarf planet, in large part due to the ...

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 ...

Shopping for a junior stargazer? We've picked out the best telescopes for kids, perfect for wowing them with February's planetary parade or next month's breathtaking lunar eclipse. If there's a ...

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the body ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere. Credit ...

They used a deep neural network to scan the dwarf planet’s surface and identify any additional organic-rich areas that may have been missed in earlier studies. They found that only two of the ...