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.

The Solar System is our immediate neighborhood and its planets and moons have shared the same astrophysical environment ... digital terrain models and cartographic maps. Remote-sensing investigations ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, whether you call it a planet or ... of hitting the moon instead.

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 ...

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...