For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

For the first time, NASA scientists have found direct evidence of a mysterious form of icy volcanism on a former planet named Ceres, located in the asteroid belt. In the 1800s, Ceres was a small ...

Scientists have long wondered why carbon-rich meteorites appear less affected by violent impacts than those lacking the stuff ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

He named it Ceres, after the patron goddess of Sicily ... In 1930, a systematic search revealed what seemed to be a 9th planet, although measurements eventually showed it to be much smaller ...

It was on the night of New Year in Palermo in 1801 – in what was then the southernmost observatory in Europe – that Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres. Before this ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We all know Neil deGrasse Tyson's stance on Pluto and its status as a planet. But what does the world renowned astrophysicist consider to be the most underrated planet?

A Kobe University study has finally solved this decades-old puzzle. Researchers found that when meteorites are hit, organic ...