A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such ...

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.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Protoplanetary Disks: These are disks of gas and dust that surround young stars and eventually form planets ... where ...

Let’s take a closer look at this former planet at the edge of our Solar System. Since it received its new status of a “dwarf planet,” Pluto can console itself with finally being the largest ...

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 ...

Muyi Zhang, PhD student at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology at LiU, holds a perovskite LED. Credit: Olov Planthaber. There’s a new type of LED in town. These light-emitting ...