On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate ...

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

The nearby star Gliese 229 harbours a ‘brown dwarf’ companion: an object less massive than a star but more massive than a planet ... system. Yet, among the hundreds of billions of solar ...

Discovered in 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, Ceres was long classified as an asteroid before being reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Ceres is an object of study for researchers as it may ...

Space.com talks to artist and author Martin Vargic, who is turning exoplanets into stunning and intricate art.

So the brown dwarf that three decades ago was named Gliese 229B is now recognized as Gliese 229Ba, with a mass 38 times greater than our solar system's largest planet Jupiter, and Gliese 229Bb ...

Astronomers from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in Australia and elsewhere have reinvestigated a planetary ...

which is known to have seven planets orbiting a red dwarf star. That makes TRAPPIST-1 the star system most similar to the solar system. The researchers used the recently upgraded Allen Telescope ...

As well as planets and moons, the solar system also contains dwarf planets, which are too small to be considered planets. The best known of these is Pluto, an ice dwarf that orbits far from the ...

Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...

the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids, moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this? Oh noooo ...