Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

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 ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

A Chinese commercial space launch company is continuing its success with a small solid rocket ahead of a more ambitious launch later this year.

New AI research suggests organic molecules on Ceres likely originated from asteroid impacts, not internal activity.

The area near clouds is often classified as ‘clear sky’, but a new study demonstrates the potential biases of misclassifying ...