Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

This "blinking" between images allowed the astronomer to note ... Assembly adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy one of three newly ...

The universe is vast, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful. From the glow of distant galaxies to the quiet elegance of ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

This "blinking" between images allowed the astronomer to note ... in the solar system — in 2006 Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union, the Lowell ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot ... Instead of seeing a cold, cratered and rocky world, New Horizons beamed back images revealing Pluto to be a surprisingly geologically ...

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

Arizona has declared Pluto its “official state planet” — despite it being relegated to “dwarf planet” status ... looking for planets by taking photos over a period of time,” said ...