The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

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

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.

The dwarf planet ... reached the inner Solar System only later. For the current study, the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres.

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres ... Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to ... apparent than during a planetary alignment. An alignment including all of the planets except Mercury is taking place in mid-January.

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...