Journey back to 2015 when the Dawn spacecraft first orbited Ceres, the colossal dwarf planet in our inner solar system. Dive ...

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

A stunning new NASA-backed study reveals that Ceres, a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter, may have had the right ingredients to support microbial alien life. With underground saltwater oceans, ...

Volunteers use thousands of flowers and other plant material to prepare floats for the 136th annual Tournament of Roses ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

Today is Thursday, Jan. 1, the first day of 2026 with 364 days to follow. This is New Year's Day. The moon is waxing. Morning ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...