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

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

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

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago. A Max Planck team used AI to investigate where they came from. During measurements with the spectrometer ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

A great or full planetary alignment is all the solar system planets, and sometimes Pluto since Pluto has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet. As the planets orbit the solar system, different ...

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night sky. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn can be seen with the naked eye ...

"This range includes planetary masses to brown dwarf masses," Malhotra said. (Brown dwarfs, often called "failed stars," are odd celestial bodies that are heavier than planets but not as massive ...

Remnants of this disc can still be seen today in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper belt further out beyond Neptune, which is filled with protoplanets and dwarf planets like ...

In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...