The origin of a dwarf planet living in our solar system was a subject of debate for several years among astronomers. They now seem to have settled it. Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, has ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that the dwarf planet Ceres is much icier than previously thought, possibly harboring a subsurface ocean.

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

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 ...

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." ...

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

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