The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

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.

While a street or a building may be commonplace, our Joe has been heralded with everything from an ice cream flavor to a miniature planet. Wikipedia actually has a page devoted to the topic ...

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 ...

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.

Slowing down climate change is an immense task, but small individual actions can add up to help reduce emissions. In 2024, the critical 1.5C threshold was breached for a full year for the first ...

January has a meteor shower, top-notch planet sightings, and a planet parade on the docket. What’s even more exciting: the recent northern lights activity shows no signs of slowing down ...