Pune: The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has begun a study on fauna within protected forest areas of western India — from Goa to Karnataka — to build a database for the forest department.

Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, is far from a static rock drifting through space. Its complex geology and cryovolcanic activity hint at an active history stretching billions of years.

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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 ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...

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: MPS Ceres, ...

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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 ...

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The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.