What was supposed to be a two-year stint turned into a long-term love story with Luxembourg. Ola, originally from Egypt and a seasoned expat, shares her heartfelt journey of discovering a country that ...

Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

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How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

The five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union are, in order of distance from the sun: Ceres, which is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, then ...

The only body smaller than it is Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, which is a dwarf planet. It was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in 1807. It was believed to ...

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.

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently. The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual “inhabitant” of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only the largest body between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; unlike its rather ...

The once-asteroid-now-dwarf-planet Ceres is on the move across the bottom of the familiar "Teapot" asterism in Sagittarius the Archer. I marked its location in yellow every five nights from July 7 ...