The idea of Ceres having water is not entirely new. The dwarf planet was discovered in 1801, then it was just regarded as an asteroid, and since 2005, it has been officially regarded as a dwarf planet ...

Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

This is particularly puzzling, as a vast majority of meteorites can be traced to some well-known parent body—whether that be ...

On May 17, 2017, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured a stunning image of Ceres’ south polar region, offering a closer look at the mysterious dwarf planet. Dawn, launched on September 27 ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now know where they’re coming from – the death throes of a planet being ...