The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

Nobody was using the term Dwarf Planet until 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had a vote to redefine what ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are ...

Many planets have moons, and some planets have many moons - Saturn has more than 50. The Earth has just one moon - the Moon. Pluto is a dwarf planet. As the name suggests, a dwarf planet is ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...

For the current study, the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.