Max Planck Institute For Solar System Research

Astronomers claim to have discovered the roundest natural object in space ever measured - a slowly rotating star 5,000 light years away from the Earth.

A pair of bright spots that glimmer inside an impact crater on the asteroid Ceres could be some kind of icy plume, new images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed.

Astronomers claim to have discovered the roundest natural object in space ever measured - a slowly rotating star 5,000 light years away from the Earth.

A pair of bright spots that glimmer inside an impact crater on the asteroid Ceres could be some kind of icy plume, new images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed.