The Solar System is our immediate neighborhood and its planets and moons have shared the same astrophysical environment ... Data processing of imaging cameras and laser altimeters result in, e.g., ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the Solar System and provide challenges to theories of planetary formation and evolution. Whether or not the evolution of the ...

Our solar system contains a central star with eight planets, dwarf planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

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 ...

The IAU also estimates that there could be "more than 100" extra dwarf planets waiting to be found in the outer solar system, all of which could have moons. "Just like the giant planet satellites ...

Earth-like exoplanets (planets ... solar system. Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, and Europa and Ganymede, moons of Jupiter, are all thought to have saltwater oceans buried under icy shells. Dwarf ...

Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to ... planet has two moons. More information: The size, shape, density and ring of the dwarf planet Haumea ...

Scientists think the larger moons of Pluto and Earth formed through a collisional process. Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons.