Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for ...

Beyond the familiar planets lies a fascinating frontier filled with icy worlds, mysterious orbits, and cosmic curiosities.

Astronomers report the finding of a unique new object that doesn’t fit with categories that were only established in the last ...

A rare quadruple star system with two brown dwarfs orbiting two red dwarf stars could help shed light on how these "failed ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which orbited Ceres between 2015 and 2018, previously revealed some surprises about this frozen ...

Radioactive decay produced a warm internal ocean Dwarf planet Ceres, the unpleasant lump of icy rock orbiting between Mars ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare quadruple star system with two red dwarfs and two brown dwarfs orbiting together.

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

Bars in Springfield are prohibited from hosting certain types of events. One of them is "dwarf-tossing." Here's the backstory ...