Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although Venus now seems an unlikely place for life as we know it, Mars remains a possibility, Cox said, and two very big NASA rovers – Curiosity and ... “There’s a little asteroid-type thing called ...

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 ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...

A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a close approach while orbiting around the sun. The space rock, known as ...