Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

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

With advancing equipment and an increasing sample size, many exoplanetologists are moving from discovery to investigating these distant planets’ characteristics. Super-Earth HD 20794 d, a find 20 ...

As we head deeper into 2025, it seems the folks at Hello Games have quite a hefty new update for No Man’s Sky. Update 5.5, dubbed “Worlds Part 2” is another overhaul of world systems, adding a new ...

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

At the same time, exoplanetologists have begun to take an interest in their characteristics, with the aim of finding life elsewhere ... Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material ... Ceres is a fascinating world with a mix of characteristics from both the inner and outer solar system. It is known for its ...

For the current study (AGU Advances, "Ceres: Organic-Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?"), the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its ...