A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.

A “dwarf planet” discovered at the start of the 19th century has been mystifying scientists for hundreds of years. Now, ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, ...

Analysis finds that the mini-world Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is progressively filled with impurities farther from the ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.

The search for a second Earth within the Milky Way is ongoing, but a recently discovered planet falls short of the mark.

The red giant phase is pretty crazy. The star's outer atmosphere can expand to hundreds of times its initial size; some ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

The discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf shows a possible future for Earth billions of years from now.