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

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

Six planets are still aligned in London skies tonight (Sunday, January 26) and will remain so until about mid-February. So if ...

Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon ... Pluto has a mass of 1.3 x 10 22 kilograms and a diameter of 1,477 miles (2,377 kilometers), whereas Charon has ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

As our planet warms, the impacts are felt most by those who can least afford it. 🌍 It's a stark reminder of our ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

In this video, I set out on an extraordinary mission to discover a new planet. With the odds stacked against me, I rented a ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...