In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

I’m not sure whether it was elementary school science classes or Fred Flintstone’s Brontosaurus burgers that made the giant herbivore one of the most recognizable dinosaurs to me as a kid. But for ...

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through space, the vast majority are in solar systems, where they're gravitationally ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Data from a now defunct NASA spacecraft has revealed a massive internal reservior of organic material within the second wettest solar system body, Ceres.

A new definition for the astronomical term 'planet' would apply to all alien worlds we've discovered so far, but would still leave Pluto off the list.

During its sixth orbit of Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently snapped dozens of images of the dwarf planet, the largest object between Mars and Jupiter.

NASA: Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world It has a vast repository of salty water hiding below its surface.

Ceres is rich with water, the Dawn spacecraft finds. What can this mean for finding life on other worlds? Ceres is the largest dwarf planet in the inner solar system, and new findings from the ...

NASA Mission Shows Dwarf Planet Ceres Is Geologically Active Seven studies of data from the Dawn spacecraft’s final orbit makes the case for liquid under the dwarf planet’s surface ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest known object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And now we know it may be an ocean world.