New NASA research hints that Ceres — the closest dwarf planet to Earth — may have once had an ancient "power source" that could have sparked the evolution of extraterrestrial life-forms in the tiny ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission completely transformed humanity’s understanding of Pluto after revealing a mysterious world far ...

A white dwarf is usually thought of as the quiet remnant left behind after a star has exhausted its fuel and shed much of ...

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 ...

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 Dawn mission to the main asteroid belt, granted a second extended mission earlier this year, will end later next year after a final set of close-up observations of the dwarf planet Ceres. Pluto ...

No longer a planet but not forgotten, Pluto’s colors, captured by NASA almost 10 years ago, continue to dazzle among the collection of colorful celestial objects only seen in the solar system. Since ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has reiterated his support for Pluto to be reclassified as a planet. Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006 because it has not cleared its orbital path of ...