The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Red dwarfs are plentiful, and research shows that they host multitudes of planets ... on Earth and perhaps on other worlds." More information: Afonso Mota et al, How habitable are M-dwarf Exoplanets?

Charon is unusual because it is the largest moon in the solar system compared with ... a double dwarf planet system, not a planet and moon. Charon is smaller than Earth's moon.

An impression of how TOI-715b could look, orbiting around its red dwarf star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The search for Earth-like planets is inherently a key part of the search for other life in ...

(Web Desk): Scientists have discovered a planet 12 times larger than Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. In fact, compared to this planet, Jupiter seems like a dwarf planet. Even more ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

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. In the ...