Astrobiologists have wondered if simple, microbial life could exist on Ceres, the closest frozen ocean world to Earth at an ...

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

Quaoar is the fifth dwarf planet from the Sun, in the Kuiper belt, located in the Kuiper belt, one of the outermost regions of the Solar System. Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the ...

The search for a second Earth within the Milky Way is ongoing, but a recently discovered planet falls short of the mark.

After decades of searching, a telltale gravitational wobble points to an exoplanet orbiting the nearby red dwarf every 3.15 days.

The red giant phase is pretty crazy. The star's outer atmosphere can expand to hundreds of times its initial size; some ...

The planetary system with a white dwarf, an Earth-like planet and a brown dwarf cannot be seen; the point of light in (c) is from the background source star that is no longer magnified.

First rocky planet found orbiting white dwarf offers insight into Earth's potential survival after sun's death.

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 ...

Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our own planet. Although the exoplanet may no longer be habitable, its survival ...