Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public demotion from ninth planet of the solar system two ...

As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...

New computer simulations show how a now-frozen ocean of water mixed with dirt and rock could explain geological features on ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

Now, a new analysis has revealed that this extra-puffy 'popcorn' planet has an asymmetrical atmosphere, with significant ...

Recent studies suggest that the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may have once contained a muddy ocean beneath its surface. This new understanding ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the strange dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres currently resides in the main asteroid belt ...

Analysis finds that the mini-world Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is progressively filled with impurities farther from the ...

Small primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology today. These hypothetical black ...

Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public demotion from ninth planet of the solar system two decades ago. But a relatively obscure dwarf planet in the main asteroid ...