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What was supposed to be a two-year stint turned into a long-term love story with Luxembourg. Ola, originally from Egypt and a ...

A planet far, far away A possible dwarf planet, like Pluto, has been observed in our solar system, according to a preprint published in arXiv. The area of space where this planet was found was ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres. The Ocean Worlds initiative spearheads the search for extraterrestrial ...

So NASA's Dawn mission, which studied Ceres from orbit between 2015 and 2018, couldn't see as much carbon as some future spacecraft on the surface. So how soon could such a spacecraft arrive?

Ceres is the first of two dwarf planets to receive visitors this year. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is barreling toward one-time planet Pluto where it will arrive in July.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi first spotted Ceres in 1801, he couldn’t have imagined that this distant object would still be puzzling scientists over 220 years later. Fresh ...

NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018.

Dwarf planet Ceres: Building blocks of life delivered from space Date: January 27, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Summary: The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic ...