In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

The waterways already irrigate much of the state’s crops, but now they will also cool the solar panels, just by nature of ...

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.

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

The methane emission is explained by solar-excited fluorescence. Sunlight interacts with methane molecules, causing them to ...

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

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?

It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Another chaotic day of travel for BART commuters caused by a computer equipment issue extended nearly into Friday afternoon before the transit agency resumed full service following a full-system ...

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