Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...

A Southwest Research Institute researcher collaborated with a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to attempt to explain ...

NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they make safe ...

Ceres is much bigger than the others and almost ... Neptune has at least 16 moons. And one is very unusual. Triton is the largest of Neptune's moons. Its surface is coated with ice.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a mess ...

the moon was demoted to a satellite, and the sun got promoted. This worked for over 200 years, until William Herschel discovered Uranus and Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the largest object in ...

The moons Titan, Enceladus and Mimas at Saturn are ... The dwarf planets Pluto, Charon and Ceres could also have subsurface oceans below a surface ice layer.

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is also a worthy candidate. The presence of water on Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, raises thin hopes that life could have arisen there. Journeys to ...

A Southwest Research Institute researcher collaborated with a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to attempt to explain ...

Sep. 27, 2024 — A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid ... 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active ...