In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

This dwarf planet—which shares some characteristics with planets but doesn't meet all the criteria for planetary classification—is recognized as the most water-rich body in the inner solar ...

Astronomers are slowly shining light on the dark objects hovering in a narrow part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. In a new study, researchers found that 10 well-known asteroids ...

This dwarf planet—which shares some characteristics with planets but doesn't meet all the criteria for planetary classification—is recognized as the most water-rich body in the inner solar ...

Researchers from Spain's Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía used Dawn data to identify 11 more regions on Ceres rich in organic material. This indicated to the team that a reservoir of organic ...

Related Stories: — Dwarf planet Ceres has way more organic molecules than originally suspected — Astronomers spy new class of dark, water-rich asteroids like dwarf planet Ceres ...

A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice ...

The gas-rich galaxies lost their gas when they collided with the hot gas of the Galactic halo. The violence of shocks and turbulence in the process completely changed the dwarf galaxies.

A white dwarf star was spotted feeding off a companion star before the feasting star exploded. Astronomers found that the zombie white dwarf star had been feeding off of helium-rich material from ...

Ceres: Past, present, and future The composition of Ceres links the dwarf planets with a family of meteorites rich in compounds of carbon. These fragments of asteroids are called " carbonaceous ...