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

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance ... let’s get as many assets as we can observing it,’” Bruce Betts ...

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The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

For the current study (AGU Advances, "Ceres: Organic-Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?"), the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its ...

The planetary parade of 2025 presents a unique opportunity to observe the influence of six major planets as they align. This alignment offers a practical understanding of how each planet's energy ...

with sizes between 0.89 and 1.52 Jupiter's radius and orbits between 0.04 and 0.07 AU. They also checked to see if any of those dips in light curves might have been caused by second planets ...

Until that happens, the best the universe can offer is aligning planets, we’re afraid – but it’s still pretty exciting. For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar ...

TEMPLE, Texas — A 'planetary parade' is making its way across the sky this January, with four planets, six if you have a telescope, visible in a planetary alignment. According to NASA ...

On January 25, 2025, the cosmos will present a spectacular event known as a planetary alignment, where all major planets in our solar system will line up in a harmonious formation. This celestial ...