How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

The dwarf planet Ceres as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA, ... "Underneath this dusty, dirty, clay-type surface, we think that Ceres might be icy," Schmidt said.

The shape of the dwarf planet, combined with its size and total mass, reveal a body of incredibly low density. "Underneath this dusty, dirty, clay-type surface, we think that Ceres might be icy ...

The team hypothesizes that Ceres’s hydrothermal activity, combined with clay and ammonia-bearing hydrated minerals on the dwarf planet, produced the organics.

The dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt but looks nothing like its neighbors. In a new paper, scientists propose an explanation for the conundrum. ... like clay and carbonates.

The dwarf planet Ceres is mysteriously missing a bunch of craters "There is nothing quite like Ahuna Mons in the solar system," Lucy McFadden of NASA Goddard, a co-author on the paper, said in a ...

Then another “planet” was discovered. On March 28, 1802, German physician and astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered Pallas; this was rapidly followed by Juno in 1804 and Vesta in 1807.

From clay to glass. That immersive experience got its start in the early 1980s. Jeffrey Bennett, ... And, yes, Pluto will still make an appearance in the new model but it will be labeled a dwarf ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft recently made its closest flyby of Ceres, sending back the most detailed views of its surface.. Ceres is the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt located between the orbits ...

A hidden ocean on dwarf planet Ceres may have churned up some of the ingredients for life relatively recently.. The largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, dwarf planet Ceres, hides ...