As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...

Astrobiologists have wondered if simple, microbial life could exist on Ceres, the closest frozen ocean world to Earth at an ...

Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public demotion from ninth planet of the solar system two decades ago. But a relatively obscure dwarf planet in the main asteroid ...

When the vote passed, Pluto was no longer considered a planet and instead became the most famous dwarf planet in the solar ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that the dwarf planet Ceres, long believed to be a rocky object with minimal ice, was ...

Researchers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as Barnard’s Star, which is about 6 light years away ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

After decades of searching, a telltale gravitational wobble points to an exoplanet orbiting the nearby red dwarf every 3.15 days.

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and ...