Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

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When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it surprised a lot of people, including some scientists. Even many years later, some ...

In billions of years, our Sun will expand into a red giant, likely engulfing Earth before shrinking into a white dwarf—a dense, glowing stellar remnant. While this process destroys most planets ...

Pluto's moon: NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before the spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. Thanks For Reading!

Since then, Ceres —a water-rich dwarf planet showing ... Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick ...

Color Image of Pluto: This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14. Charon| NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One year on the distant ice planet is 248 Earth years, and one day is 153 ...

Astronomers detected hundreds more new worlds beyond the solar system this year and worked to better understand what makes ...

From Sabrina Carpenter's hit song Espresso to a newly discovered Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf, the most ...

In 2010, astronomers discovered what they thought was the most Earth-like planetary candidate known at the time orbiting a red dwarf star. Today, astronomers no longer think the planet ...