Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, and Europa and Ganymede, moons of Jupiter, are all thought to have saltwater oceans buried under icy shells. Dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres are also suspected of having ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox ... There are currently five recognized dwarf planets in our Solar System, listed here in order of closest proximity to the Earth: Ceres: Located in the ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

There are hundreds of cool dwarf ... best of all possible worlds, theoretically more habitable than Earth. Recently, there's been an exciting addition to the inventory of habitable planets.

This is largely because virtually all Earth-like planets discovered within 50 light-years of Earth orbit red dwarf suns ...

Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet ... had to rethink things — surely, planets lived alone, after all. Herschel proposed the term "asteroids" for ...

Horns high and defiance nigh, the last supermoon of the year rises this week. On Friday, November 15th, the full beaver moon ...

“One of the most intriguing questions right now in exoplanet astronomy is: Can rocky planets orbiting M-dwarf stars maintain atmospheres that could support life?” said Dr. Joshua Krissansen-Totton, ...

and it got all too crazy. Viewed in this longer context, the previously modern idea of having nine planets, which came about in the 1960s and lasted only until 2006, was a blip on the screen.

Research found that the scar developed after white dwarf ingested the surrounding planets and asteroids which were born at the same time as it, causing a concentration of metals that scar the ...

Observe a galaxy, far, far away… with your very own Millennium Falcon - the amazing Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope. This portable ...