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In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through ...

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New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

Ice generates electricity as a response to stress when it bends. Experiments with pure and saline ice found that with enough ...

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The moon is about one-third of a mile (a half-kilometer) across and circles Saturn as a part of the planet's sixth, or G, ring. "Before Cassini, the G ring was the only dusty ring that was not clearly ...