We've just found a nearby exoplanet that could be right for life
15 November 2017
A newly discovered nearby world is probably close in size and temperature to Earth. This exoplanet might be able to host life because of its unusually calm star
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Found 317 results for dwarf planet
Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright
20 October 2017
Something strange is happening on dwarf planets Eris and Makemake. They’re tiny and cold, but they still show surprising signs of geologic activity, like real planets
Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected
11 October 2017
The tiny world Haumea has a ring, the most distant we’ve found in our solar system. This may mean rings encircle other far-off worlds in the solar system
The mysterious bright spots on Ceres may have a common origin
2 October 2017
The dwarf planet Ceres is dappled with mysterious bright splotches. Their make-up varies with location, but they may all come from the same process
It could be snowing on Mars right now
21 August 2017
The Red Planet may have had intense snowstorms long ago when it was wetter, but a model shows it could still have violent snowfall at night when the clouds cool
Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks
24 July 2017
On watery worlds that lack days and nights because one face always points toward their star, tides may help life emerge – and algal blooms might be the giveaway
Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other
14 June 2017
New observations reveal a rare binary planet system made of two gas giants four times as massive as Jupiter that likely formed in the breakup of a protostar 10 million years ago
Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time
7 June 2017
Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light to directly measure the mass of a dense stellar remnant
Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape
25 May 2017
Many rocky worlds may have spent time as a newly named planetary form called a synestia – a loosely connected blob of molten rock and dust with a dented middle
Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought
15 May 2017
Objects with only 6.7 per cent of the sun’s mass can be stars, according to a fresh measurement of how massive an object must be to achieve nuclear fusion
