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

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

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

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago. A Max Planck team used AI to ...

Is there any way life could survive on red dwarf planets? New research from scientists ... the researchers used a common type of mold and subjected it to simulated red dwarf radiation, protected ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre ... Unfortunately, remote data is not sufficient to identify individual types of molecules beyond doubt. However, it is certain that the discovered deposits consist ...

Quaoar is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered by astronomers Michael Brown and Chad Trujillo in 2002. Since that time, studies have shown it to be approximately 1,110 km in ...

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...