Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A new study in Nature Communications says carbon appears to be blown into ...

By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has been reporting on dwarf planets and their definitions since Pluto was demoted into that category. A sizable world has been found in a part of the solar system ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope looks for the most distant galaxies ever seen, astronomers have discovered something new in our very own solar system. Researchers from the U.S. and Canada have ...

After three months the dwarf planet Ceres leaves your career sector today, but not before spending the last three months on a deep dive into your professional needs and priorities. Ceres was here ...

Now, a US-based trio hunting this elusive world has instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches. And the existence of this new kid on the block ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the Kuiper Belt, a place in the outer solar system that’s home to dwarf planets ...

She took some time to talk about taking better care of the planet, and the ways that she’s begun using her art to express her activism. Q: What can people expect to see at EcoFest Encinitas this ...

"Basically, we detected a water–ice reservoir." At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by the James Webb Space ...

But these common phenomena pale in comparison to a monstrous event that inundated the planet with particles from the Sun around 14,300 years ago, identified as the strongest solar storm ever recorded ...

In 2003, it discovered a planet with 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter circling a neutron star-white dwarf binary in the Milky Way globular cluster M4. These clusters have few metals and yet ...