Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add ...

After spending nearly eight years floating through deep space, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft finally reached its destination Friday, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt called Ceres.

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Journey back to 2015 when the Dawn spacecraft first orbited Ceres, the colossal dwarf planet in our inner solar system. Dive deep into the mysteries of this unique celestial body as we recall the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

A planet far, far away A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was ...

The dwarf planet candidate’s closest point to the sun is about 7 billion kilometers, roughly 45 times that of Earth’s distance. One trip around the sun takes more than 24,000 years.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...