The four largest objects in the belt are Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. Ceres is the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. Gaps in the asteroid belt, called Kirkwood gaps, correspond to ...

T Coronae Borealis, one of the fainter stars included in the constellation Corona Borealis, is expected to go nova any day now.

LTT 1445 Ac is roughly the size of Earth and about 22 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The planet orbits the ...

From late September until late November this year, a “mini-moon”, called 2024 PT5 by the astrologers who spotted it ...

Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...

Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event.

What is a brown dwarf star? These formations often defy classification, blurring the line between planets and stars.

Astronomers stumbled upon Neptune only after the planet Uranus — which William Herschel had found 65 years earlier — was ...

Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

We are all familiar with our one Moon but other planets have different numbers of moons; Mercury has none, Jupiter has 95 and ...

Boaters in New Jersey waters got the sighting of a lifetime when a blue whale swam into view. “We witnessed the largest living animal in the world off the coast of Cape May,” Cape May Whale Watch and ...