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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Astronomers have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a distant white dwarf, shedding light on the possible future of our ...

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

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-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

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

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...