Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid sample ... icy bodies in our Solar System. Some of these bodies include Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in ...

Using AI to comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres ... Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in ...