Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere. Credit ...

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

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For the current study (AGU Advances, "Ceres: Organic-Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?"), the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its ...

The planet, if it is indeed a planet ... an unremarkable orange K-class dwarf with just 64% the mass of our sun. As Gaia plotted the star's proper motion in the sky, it noticed that the star's ...

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The brown dwarf, not quite a planet or a star, is Gaia-5b. Respectively, they are 244 and 134 light-years away. "This discovery is an exciting tip-of-the-iceberg for the exoplanet discoveries we ...

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