The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

The universe is vast, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful. From the glow of distant galaxies to the quiet elegance of ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and the first major body in our solar system to have a Chinese name. It's also known as 2007 OR10. Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Defy gravity with out-of-this-world space trivia collected from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Originally, Ceres was classified as an asteroid when it was discovered in 1801 but it was upgraded to dwarf planet status in 2006. With a mean diameter of 587.82 miles (946 km), it is larger than ...

There are currently six recognized dwarf planets: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, and 2015 RR 245 (which does not have an official “name” yet, as of 2022). If we were just talking about ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...