However, a new study suggests that two of the farthest flung celestial bodies—the dwarf planets Makemake and Eris ... was ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres are also suspected of having an underground ocean, as are some of the moons of Uranus. “We know that the presence of liquid water is essential for life,” said Ojha.

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

The peak of the shower will occur Nov. 16-17 when observers should see up to 10 meteors each hour ... Saturn will be one of three planets visible in the evening sky. The other two are Ka ...

"This is the most exciting and fascinating discovery in substellar astrophysics in decades," an astrophysicist said.

Since potentially habitable red dwarf planets must orbit very close to their ... Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2433 Journal information: Monthly ...

Observe a galaxy, far, far away… with your very own Millennium Falcon - the amazing Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope. This portable ...

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf with seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. (Photo digital ... [+] Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) Scientists have just completed an extensive search ...

In the future, the team would like to search for even more closely orbiting brown dwarf binaries with instruments such as the Keck Planet Imager ... Letters (2024). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad7714 ...