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

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

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

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

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

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

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...

The findings from returned samples of asteroid Bennu may provide researchers insight into what happens on distant icy bodies in our solar system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks ... Nathues from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany in a statement.

Comparing the composition of Bennu and other similar asteroids to icy dwarf planets, including Ceres and Pluto as well as moons of the outer solar system, implies that the building blocks for life ...