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

Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, and Europa and Ganymede, moons of Jupiter, are all thought to have saltwater oceans buried under icy shells. Dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres are also suspected of having ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

It’s a risky maneuver, but if all goes well ... Pluto vanished from the list of planets and reappeared as a “dwarf planet.” That, of course, had more to do with astronomers on Earth than ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths, and moons orbit around planets. Asteroids and comets move in paths which are more oval in shape. The Sun’s gravity holds all of these objects ...