The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago. A Max Planck team used AI to investigate where they came from. During measurements with the spectrometer ...

These minerals formed much like they do today in soda lakes on Earth and subsurface oceans on icy moons and dwarf planets of the outer solar system, including Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the ...

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...

These minerals formed much like they do today in soda lakes on Earth and subsurface oceans on icy moons and dwarf planets of the outer solar system, including Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the ...

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night sky. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn can be seen with the naked eye ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...