Mercury and Saturn are neighbors in the sky, about a half a fist held upright and at arm’s length above the west-southwestern ...

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Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas astrobiologist leading the ...

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New lab experiments, simulating Vesta's harsh vacuum conditions ... above Earth—but also feature the first-ever private spac... Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars ...

Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, is far from a static rock drifting through space. Its complex geology and cryovolcanic activity hint at an active history stretching billions of years.

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The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt. Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere. Credit: MPS Ceres, ...