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.

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

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

Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...

More importantly, a planet orbiting a red dwarf star must have a magnetic field ... planets that orbit red dwarfs could support life. The list doesn’t end with flare activity or tidal locking ...

Dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres are also suspected of having an underground ocean, as are some of the moons of Uranus. “We know that the presence of liquid water is essential for life,” said Ojha.

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...