New research based on data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests the dwarf planet Ceres may have once possessed a deep, ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...

The rocket utilizes a three-stage solid engine in series with a liquid fourth stage, featuring a conical-cylindrical shape. It is 1.4 meters in diameter, approximately 20 meters long, and has a ...

Friday's flight was the 21st mission of the Ceres 1, which has deployed 85 commercial satellites. The rocket now has the highest success rate among Chinese private launchers, the company said. The ...

Ceres is the largest object within the solar system's main asteroid belt, which is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The wee world is around 600 miles (950 kilometers) wide, roughly ...

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But ...

Our Solar System is home to many unique planetary bodies, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Here are the unique ...

A Long March 7A rocket blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Tuesday. [Photo by Meng Zhongde ...

Here, the 'ice volcano' does not erupt molten rock, but rather 'ice magma' formed from a mixture of water ice, liquid brine, ...