Could humans live on Ceres someday? Consider the possibilities of colonizing the dwarf planet in our solar system.

Journey beyond Neptune to uncover the frozen, mysterious worlds that challenge everything we thought we knew about the solar ...

With Senate confirmation of Jared Isaacman to head NASA, the billionaire space pilot could begin pushing forward his vision ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes ...

Astronomers Watch a ‘Zombie’ White Dwarf Star Devour the Remnants of a Destroyed Planet — and Can’t Explain Why - © NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The end of this entry's definition reads: "The largest known dwarf planets are: Eris, Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, and 2015 RR245." Why is 2015 RR245 listed as one of the largest dwarf planets? For ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...

A 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, the core of a dead star, consumed an exoplanet from its former planetary system. Credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted illustration A dead star core about 145 ...

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about some of the factors that are convincing Electrek readers to add home solar power systems to their homes. After receiving over a ...