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

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

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

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations of a brown dwarf ... mass range between 13 and 80 Jupiter masses ...

Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets ... a gravitational disturbance from Jupiter flung the parent body out of its original orbit. It ended up between Mars and Earth, where an impact later ...

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 ...