Japanese researchers have discovered salt minerals on the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting that liquid water may have once been ...

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

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

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic ... on trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and far-away asteroids. These bodies are thought ...

Scientists have long debated the origin of the organic material found on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

Undersea detectors anchored deep in the Mediterranean Sea found an ultra-high-energy neutrino, a particle that opens a new ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic ... on trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and far-away asteroids. These bodies are thought ...

The Ceres-1 four-stage solid propellant rocket lifted off at 5:11 a.m. EST on Jan. 20 (1011 GMT; or 8:11 p.m. local time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, northwest China.

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha ...

Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking Earth in the year 2182 — the highest odds of any known space object ... the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn's ...