The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the ...
NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...
If you get the question in Trivial Pursuit “how many plantes are there in the Solar System ... Pluto was downgraded from a “planet” to a “dwarf planet” in 2016 by the International ...
In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft to explore the origin of organic material on Ceres ...
The dwarf planet ... reached the inner Solar System only later. For the current study, the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres.