On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate ...

Therefore, the image of Jupiter circulating on social media was a real photograph taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft, but was ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A dwarf planet called Ceres could offer some amazing insights into our quest to ...

Firstly, the study found that a high percentage of planets orbiting red dwarf stars (the most abundant type of star in the Milky Way) could generate their own heat. “We found that when one ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a ...

Those observations revealed the dwarf planet's unusual bright patches as a salty crust of sodium carbonate, the same type of salt people use as a water softener. After looking at the mission data ...

The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in ... is caused by winds blowing clouds of different types of ice, liquid and gas around. The Great Red Spot ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system is a science-fiction writer's dream. Seven Earth-sized worlds orbit a red dwarf star just 40 ...

What has been particularly interesting to astronomers is how M-type (red dwarf) stars appear to be very good at forming rocky planets. In particular, astronomers have detected many gas giants and ...

Astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under lights designed to simulate the light of a star called a K-dwarf.