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

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 ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

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

Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less "shocked" than expected, missing the effects often seen in a ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...