The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
In 2006, almost a decade after Tombaugh's death, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. The New Horizons mission carries some of Tombaugh's ashes on board as it ...
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
Hygiea, classified as an asteroid so far, might actually be a dwarf planet. The European Southern Observatory has been able to confirm that Hygiea has a spherical shape. But, Hygiea is missing a ...
In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...
In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...
Dwarf planet Ceres: Building blocks of life delivered from space Date: January 27, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Summary: The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic ...