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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research based on NASA's Dawn mission data suggests the dwarf planet Ceres, once deemed ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf ...

A color-enhanced view of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth, high­lights its Oc­ca­tor crater. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in ...

How do you build a planet, let alone one capable of sustaining and evolving life? The clues to the “recipe” can perhaps be found in the leftovers scattered around our solar system. Things like ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft will circle ...

Mosaic showing 130 bright spots on Ceres. Top left: A haze appears above Occator Crater when the sun hits it, suggesting the crater contains subsurface water ice. Top right: A kind of haze also ...

"The significance of this discovery lies in the fact that it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that could support biological processes." When you purchase through links on our ...

(Nanowerk News) Organic molecules are among the necessary inventory of life-friendly worlds. On Earth, the compounds of carbon, hydrogen and – in smaller quantities – other elements form the basic ...