Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy world we see today? This is what a | Space ...
All five hour-long episodes of "Solar System" are available to stream now via BBC iPlayer in the UK (valid TV Licence ...
Small primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology today. These hypothetical black ...
New computer simulations show how a now-frozen ocean of water mixed with dirt and rock could explain geological features on ...
Looking for water in outer space is no easy feat, however a dwarf planet that was believed to have a little bit of H2O on its ...
As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...
The planet, with a mass about 1.9 times that of Earth, is orbiting the white dwarf about 4,200 light-years away from our ...
Astronomers found a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s Star. The planet, Barnard b, completes its orbit in 3.15 days.
In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the ice giant Neptune, lies a ring of comets and dwarf planets known as the ...
Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough ...
After decades of searching, a telltale gravitational wobble points to an exoplanet orbiting the nearby red dwarf every 3.15 days.
Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveal traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto's ...