Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

White dwarfs, once thought lifeless, could host habitable planets. The James Webb Telescope is searching for atmospheric ...

Located in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, it was once classified as ... leading scientists to reclassify it as a dwarf planet in 2006. Ceres is a cryovolcanic world, where ice and ...

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 ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...