R ecent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may harbor the building blocks of life beneath its surface. Scientists have discovered ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters near its poles. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because ...

but none are larger than Ceres: with its 1000- kilometre diameter, it makes up more than a third of the total mass of the asteroid belt. Vesta, with a diameter of between 460 and 580 kilometres, is ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The research concluded that the aliphatics could not withstand prolonged exposure to deep space radiation, suggesting their relatively recent formation in Ceres's underground ocean. The team ...

Newly discovered materials on the distant asteroid Ceres leads to speculation that aliens may have once called it home. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by Jessica Orwig. Follow BI ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS ... There is evidence for similar brines on Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres. ” In the Nature ...

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon ... for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter’s moon Europa ...

At 122 grams (4 ounces), this is the largest asteroid sample ever retrieved beyond ... Scientists are now advocating for a sample return mission to Ceres, a potentially water-rich dwarf planet.

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the ... and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...