To this end, the team for the first time used artificial intelligence to analyse observational data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. According to the study, the dwarf planet's unique cryovolcanism ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich in organic molecules to determine whether ...

NASA's Dawn mission studied two bodies in the asteroid belt up close: the protoplanet Vesta from 2011 to 2012, and the dwarf planet Ceres from 2015 to 2018. The mission's scientific camera system ...

Surface of dwarf ... the dwarf planet’s surface. In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data from NASA’s Dawn ...

As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The potential discovery of a large planet beyond Neptune’s orbit could change everything we know about the Solar System. Learn how scientists detected it and what steps NASA is taking to verify its ...

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

Bill McKinnon (Washington University) will present, "What has NASA's New Horizons mission taught us about the formation of dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt?" EPL hosts weekly scientific seminars most ...

In 2005, Eris was discovered. It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal violence ...

NASA has discovered ... It orbits a red dwarf star named K2-18, which is smaller and cooler than the Sun but may still allow for habitable conditions on orbiting planets. The detection of methane ...

Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ... Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline ...

This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet. Now, after Ingenuity's remarkable success, NASA is setting its sights on an ...