Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

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

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected ...

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

The dwarf planet is a bizarre ... Organic molecules are among the necessary inventory of life-friendly worlds. On Earth, the compounds of carbon, hydrogen and -- in smaller quantities -- other ...

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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?

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

However, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined what constitutes a planet, leading to Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet ... that even Earth hasn’t fully ...