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.

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far ... The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

The Solar System doesn't get much colder than the Kuiper Belt. Out past the orbit of Pluto, far from the warmth of the Sun, drifts a vast expanse of icy rocks and dwarf planets thought too cold to ...

The two are known as our solar system's 'ice giants'. Our solar system's largest planets, the gas giants, are so large that some of their component parts would dwarf Earth. The bodies in our solar ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...