Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

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

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

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a ...

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

Ceres, a 580-mile-wide dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, still has brine sloshing through its interior. Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy shell encasing a salty ocean with many of ...