The maps also restrict the degree to which you ... these "tiger stripe" features on Enceladus' south pole. Ceres This dwarf planet is the largest object in the Asteroid Belt (though you've ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

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 ...

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail down their respective masses, a new study reports. The Kuiper ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...

To do it, he developed a model that simulated an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf. He modeled the orbiting Earth-like planet as the habitable zone devolved, noting how much energy it ...

As well as planets and moons, the solar system also contains dwarf planets, which are too small to be considered planets. The best known of these is Pluto, an ice dwarf that orbits far from the ...

Fortunately the name is a misnomer, since there are also moons, dwarf planets, and even the International ... landing sites on Earth's moon. The maps also restrict the degree to which you can ...