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 ...

Sep. 12, 2022 — Strange diamonds from an ancient dwarf planet in our solar system may have formed shortly after the dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid about 4.5 billion years ago ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them.

Charon is the largest of the five known moons, or natural satellites, of the dwarf planet Pluto. With a diameter of 1,212 kilometres (slightly more than half the diameter of Pluto), Charon is the 12th ...

5 (UPI) --On this date in history ... 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 ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

Telescopes don't come any smaller than the Dwarf 3, but does its portability come at the cost of image quality? Read the ...

Charon is the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, but calling it a moon ... Christy had been imaging Pluto with the USNO's 1.5-meter (4.9-foot) telescope. Because Pluto is so far from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

January 5, 2005, is an astronomical anniversary that is not really marked but should be. It saw the discovery of dwarf planet Eris and how those very observations led to a new way to describe the ...