New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

That’s because Pluto was downgraded from a “planet” to a “dwarf planet” in 2016 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming ...

To help you understand the latter, Snapchat’s Plus subscription rolled out a new feature called Snapchat Friend Solar System, which assigns a planet to close friends of yours. In this article, we will ...

In 2006, almost a decade after Tombaugh's death, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. The New Horizons mission carries some of Tombaugh's ashes on board as it ...

In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...

Why it's awesome: Deep inside one of Gabon's cave systems lives an unusual population of orange dwarf crocodiles ... Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science.

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.