Ceres holds plenty of water to sustain life and can also act as propulsion fuel. A study has proposed building a space ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in ... couldn't see as much carbon as some future spacecraft on the surface. So how soon could such a spacecraft arrive?

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 ...

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 ...

When Dawn arrived in 2015, Ceres became the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft. As it approached, Dawn discovered two bright white areas, named Cerealia Facula and Vinalia Faculae.

On the way to its lowest and final orbit, NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this dramatic image of Ceres's limb. Tucked into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the dwarf planet Ceres is a ...

However, the spacecraft has remained in orbit around Ceres 257 million miles from Earth. Propelled by an ion engine, the craft was the first to ever visit a dwarf planet. And, in its orbit around ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which is orbiting around the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt, is about to get closer to this celestial object than ever before. In early June, Dawn will get to ...