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 ...

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

Here, the 'ice volcano' does not erupt molten rock, but rather 'ice magma' formed from a mixture of water ice, liquid brine, ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...

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

New research based on data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests the dwarf planet Ceres may have once possessed a deep, ...

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 ...

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

Radioisotope power systems (RPS) keep spacecraft going with nuclear batteries. Until now, RPS operated using a plutonium isotope, but researchers have found that an isotope of americium could keep ...

Webb, Hubble, and SPHEREx are joining forces to study the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing details about its structure and chemistry. The comet isn’t dangerous, but it’s offering scientists a ...