Imagine a world filled only with daisies. Light-colored daisies reflect sunlight, cooling down the planet, while darker daisies absorb sunlight, warming it up. Together, these two types of daisies ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

AI analysis suggests Ceres' organics came from asteroid impacts Study finds no link between organic molecules and cryovolcanism Slow asteroid collisions may have preserved organic materials ...

A new AI-driven study has challenged previous assumptions about the origin of organic molecules on Ceres. Scientists have mapped organic-rich areas using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft and ...

Credit: NASA/JPL Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres’ cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over whether the dwarf planet formed in the asteroid belt or ...

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 researchers think brine similar to that found on Bennu could also exist on other bodies in the solar system, such as the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. —NASA is locked ...

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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