Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New NASA research hints that Ceres — the closest dwarf planet to Earth — may have once had an ancient "power source" that could ...

For decades, scientists and the general public have argued over the astronomical status of beloved dwarf planet Pluto. In the latest salvo, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that he was “very ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wants to put an end to a decades-long debate among scientists. Is Pluto a planet or not? Isaacman says it should be — but it hasn't been one for 20 years. That's ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered a small moon orbiting an icy dwarf planet in the distant reaches of our solar system. MK 2 is 100 miles in diameter and is at least 13,000 miles from ...

Astronomers have found that a relatively close white dwarf – the remaining hot, dense core of a dead star – is having a planetary snack. An international team of researchers, led by the University of ...

Astronomers have discovered GJ 3090 b, an exoplanet comparable in size to Neptune, which orbits an M dwarf star in a ...

The NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for September 29, 2026, highlights Sh2-188, a large planetary nebula whose ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...