NASA's Athena Economical Payload Integration Cost mission, or Athena EPIC, is a test launch for an innovative, scalable space ...

NASA Langley’s CERES instrument is aboard the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), the first in a new series of four highly advanced NOAA polar-orbiting satellites that will help increase… ...

For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Now, scientists are calling for long-term investment in monitoring capability, so that they ...

If Ceres’ mantle accounts for 25 percent of the asteroid’s mass, that would translate to an upper limit of 200 million cubic kilometers of fresh water (5 times more fresh water than Earth). Ceres has ...

When Ceres is at its maximum distance from the sun — roughly four Earth-sun distances, known as astronomical units (AU) — a one-way message from the Earth to Ceres takes about 30 minutes to ...

Ceres may, in fact, have as much fresh water as Earth, have Earth-like polar caps, and might even have a sub-surface liquid ocean layer, like Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

The building blocks for Earth's life could have spawned in the cosmos and flew in like dandelion seeds on asteroids. But there's another reason to be excited about this find on Ceres.

If Earth were the size of a nickel, NASA said, Ceres would be no larger than a poppy seed. In 2015, Ceres, which takes 4.6 Earth years to orbit the sun, became the first dwarf planet to be visited ...

Astronomy & Astrophysics. (2011, July 18). When minor planets Ceres and Vesta rock Earth into chaos. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 07 ...

Right now, Ceres orbits the sun at about 3 astronomical units (AU); 1 AU is the Earth-sun distance, about 93 million miles (150 million km). "Was it ever this cold at 3 AU, where Ceres is now ...

On Earth, sodium carbonate and similar salts are associated with hydrothermal environments, where heated water wells up from our planet’s crust.

If it could work with asteroids, why not the Earth? That's the thinking behind space mining company Planetary Resources' plan to adapt its asteroid prospecting satellite design to Earth observation.