New research from Purdue University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) challenges the old assumptions. The team ...

Computer simulations suggest that Ceres is far richer in ice than previously thought. Researchers from Purdue University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have recently questioned the ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

such as the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, explored recently by the NASA Dawn mission, or Jupiter's moon Europa, which will soon be explored in detail by the NASA Europa Clipper mission that includes ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

In the new BBC series Solar System, physicist Dr Brian Cox explores acid rain, ice mountains and nitrogen glaciers on Earth's ...

NASA's Dawn probe. Most of these ancient remnants are misshapen boulders. But one stands out. Ceres is much bigger than the others and almost perfectly spherical. QUICK: I joined the Dawn mission ...

In 2007, NASA sent the Dawn spacecraft to study Ceres. It reached the dwarf planet in 2015 and orbited it until 2018. While examining the rough surface, astronomers ruled out any signs of water ...

The mission was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on SpaceX ... Neptune’s Triton; dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto; Pluto’s moon Charon, and so on. Of these, Saturn’s Enceladus and ...

NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids ... was identified by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi on the night of January 1, 1801. It was named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of agriculture, as ...

Additionally, NASA’s Dawn mission observed similar flow features on the Vesta and Ceres asteroids. One focus of the recent study was Europa’s smooth spots, which are intriguing given the frequency ...