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

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

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 ...

New research from NASA and Purdue University suggest that dwarf planet Ceres is chock full of water ice that once flowed as a ...

When the vote passed, Pluto was no longer considered a planet and instead became the most famous dwarf planet in the solar ...

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 ...

A dwarf planet thought to have some ice mixed in with its dirty surface may have a lot more cool than we ever expected. "We think that there's lots of water-ice near Ceres's surface, and that it gets ...

In addition, a study in 2018 led by Anthony D. Del Genio of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) showed that planets like Proxima b could be habitable despite being tidally locked.

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Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy world we see today? This is what a | Space ...

In the previous installment, we examined the abundance of red dwarf stars in our galaxy and the surprising number of them (within 50 light-years of Earth) with rocky planets orbiting within their ...