Dwarf planet Ceres could be a great place to hunt for alien life. Here's why

Numerous asteroids that have punctured the surface of dwarf planet ... NASA's Dawn spacecraft initially spotted organic compounds known as aliphatic molecules near a 32-mile-wide impact crater on ... Read More

The history of the young cold traps of the asteroid Ceres

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters near its poles. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because our ... Read More

Extrasolar Planets News

1, 2024 — Up to a certain point, very luminous stars can have a positive effect on the formation of planets ... James Webb Space Telescope Detects Water Vapor, Sulfur Dioxide and Sand Clouds ... Read More

Space News & Videos - ABC News

ABC News’ Victor Oquendo spoke with former NASA astronaut and ABC News contributor, Col. Cady Coleman, on sharing her experiences of space and ... astrophysicist and science educator Hakeem ... Read More

Jupiter News

31, 2023 — Giant gas planets can ... Jan. 11, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star. These observations ... Read More

Science, Space, Health & Robotics News - Page 1

It's expected that Dragonfly will arrive at Titan in 2034, and once it does, it will mark the first time that "NASA will fly a vehicle for science on another planetary body," writes the space agency. Read More

Space and Astronomy

That could be good news for the fate ... was once life on the red planet. Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that’s out of this ... Read More

NASA's planet-hunter TESS temporarily shuts off

Both planets, dubbed "super earths" for being about 1 1/2 times the size of Earth, orbit the red dwarf star ... the International Space Station. Science News // 1 week ago NASA to send unmanned ... Read More

Shadows in Space

A version of this article appears in the September 5, 1931 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers ... Read More

Why there may be oceans inside dwarf planets beyond Pluto—and what this means for the likely abundance of life

This idea was scuppered in 1962 when the spacecraft Mariner 2 flew past ... internal ocean to the sun may be inside the dwarf planet Ceres, though that is perhaps largely frozen by now, or may ... Read More

NASA findings from the last year including extraordinary asteroid samples, galactic discoveries

NASA is regularly announcing new discoveries and findings. Its research is consistent, and is conducted in space ... for Fox News Digital. Get a daily look at what’s developing in science ... Read More

Nasa's lucy spacecraft discovers age of first asteroid target

NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter. (Photo credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Nasa's Lucy spacecraft, in a flyby in November made an unexpected discovery ... Read More