The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...
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.
The spacecraft’s suite of science instruments will reveal the invisible about the solar system’s most mysterious planet, to better understand the origin and evolution of a planet close to its ...
The Solar System doesn't get much colder than the Kuiper Belt. Out past the orbit of Pluto, far from the warmth of the Sun, drifts a vast expanse of icy rocks and dwarf planets thought too cold to ...
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 ... reached the inner Solar System only later. For the current study, the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres.