Initially, scientists were filled with speculation about the composition of Ceres' bright spots, with many believing they could be water or common salts. NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which began its ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...

Dawn didn’t just observe Vesta’s giant craters - it mapped the asteroid’s interior and detected signs of a once-active molten ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a group of European astronomers came together to form an association without precedent in the history of astronomy. Informally known as the Celestial Police (in ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

Friday's flight was the 21st mission of the Ceres 1, which has deployed 85 commercial satellites. The rocket now has the highest success rate among Chinese private launchers, the company said. The ...