There's more to the dwarf planet Ceres than meets the eye. It contains a layer of salty water deep underground that can occasionally reach the surface.

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma can produce a truly novel kind of extraterrestrial wave near its poles ...

Two previous missions—the Dawn spacecraft now orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres, and Europe’s Rosetta comet mission—“were the pioneers in using large, efficient solar arrays in space ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal, fertile and agricultural, Ceres is technically a dwarf planet but is regarded by astrologers as an asteroid.

'Clearest Image Ever Taken' of Venus? Real Image of Dwarf Planet Pluto? Blurry NASA Photo Shows Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan?

After 5 years of travel, Juno will soon reach Jupiter and begin its up close investigations of the giant planet.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter, beginning a 20-month investigation of the giant planet’s interior.

Pluto wasn’t the first: A brief history of our solar system’s forgotten planets Long before Pluto's demotion, there was another body in the solar system that was deemed a planet ...

Juno is the second in Nasa's so called New Frontiers class missions. The first, New Horizons, was launched towards dwarf planet Pluto in 2006 and should arrive at its target in 2015.