Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

Scientists discover possible location of ninth planet in Solar System - Discovering planet nine can help explain origin and ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' festival from Feb. 13-17.

The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced the discovery of dwarf planet 2015, the world with an extremely distant aphelion ...

For the current study, the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of ...

For the current study, the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of ...

Many planets have moons, and some planets have many moons - Saturn has more than 50. The Earth has just one moon - the Moon. Pluto is a dwarf planet. As the name suggests, a dwarf planet is ...

Shields stressed that this results in a much faster rotation period—10 hours—for the white dwarf exoplanet, while Kepler-62's exoplanet has a 155-day rotation period. While both planets would ...