On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve rich ...

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One year ago, on March 6, 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft slid gently into orbit around Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Since then, the spacecraft has delivered a ...

Did the subsurface ocean on dwarf planet ceres once fuel potential habitability? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

"The significance of this discovery lies in the fact that it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that could support biological processes." When you purchase through links on our ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft will circle ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere. Organic molecules ...

(Nanowerk News) Organic molecules are among the necessary inventory of life-friendly worlds. On Earth, the compounds of carbon, hydrogen and – in smaller quantities – other elements form the basic ...

Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy world we see today? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy ...