Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

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

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

The largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres has been a fascination ... its uniqueness led to reclassification as a dwarf planet. Current studies indicate that beneath the ...

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...

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, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.