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

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

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

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

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

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

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 ...