Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.

The discovery of a rare runaway galaxy suggests some isolated systems were shaped by past group interactions before being ...

At first glance, the dwarf planet Ceres hardly inspires dreams of alien life. Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a ghostly dwarf galaxy in a distant corner of the universe, which may have been a 'runaway' expelled from its original galaxy group billions of years ago, now drifting ...

Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...

Italian astronomers have observed five blue straggler stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Their results show that one of these stars has a white dwarf companion. The discovery is presented in a ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life ...

The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical ...