Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

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

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

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 ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

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

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago. A Max Planck team used AI to ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system. Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest ...

Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon, Europa, and Saturn's moon, Enceladus ...