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Strange hexagonal diamonds may have been jettisoned into space when a dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid around 4.5 billion years ago. A new model exploring the dwarf planet Ceres suggests ...
Astronomers studying a dim red dwarf star called LHS 1903 have found a four-planet system with an architecture that defies ...
WASHINGTON >> Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a ...
Can rocky exoplanets orbiting stars smaller than our Sun support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of ...
The dwarf planet Ceres is cloaked in a layer of asteroid dust that disguises its true surface composition, a new study suggests. A new color movie combines more than 100 images taken by NASA's New ...