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

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

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 ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

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.

By stacking together images of a piece of sky taken over multiple nights, the telescope will be able to spot fainter and fainter objects, peering deeper into the cosmos the longer it operates.

“The Agency wishes to clarify that the object, a metallic ring measuring approximately 2.5 meters in diameter and weighing about 500 kg is a fragment of a space object,” the KSA said.

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