Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

These meteorites are considered remnants of the material that formed the solar system approximately 4.6 billion years ago. "Ceres will play a key role in future space exploration. Its water ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Once thought to be a barren, rocky body, known as Ceres, it is now revealing itself as something far more interesting, in the form of a frozen ocean world hiding in plain sight within the inner solar ...

Astronomers have found a new minor planet beyond Pluto. This object, named 2017 OF201, is quite large. It orbits far from the ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

Given the name 2017 OF201, the object falls into a category called trans-Neptunian objects that orbit the sun at a distance ...