The dwarf planet Ceres, tucked away in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long been considered a quiet, frozen remnant of the early solar system. With its airless surface, icy shell, and ...

Ceres is rich with water, the Dawn spacecraft finds. What can this mean for finding life on other worlds? Ceres is the largest dwarf planet in the inner solar system, and new findings from the Dawn ...

Some social media users are sharing an image they claim shows a city that was discovered on the Moon. The image shows what appears to be an impact crater on a planet-like object. A grouping of bright ...

The search for aliens has led astronomers to scour the farthest reaches of the cosmos for signs of life. But a new study suggests that we might not need to look so far from home. According to NASA ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the ...

A color-enhanced view of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth, high­lights its Oc­ca­tor crater. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in ...

"The significance of this discovery lies in the fact that it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that could support biological processes." When you purchase through links on our ...

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 ...

How would you like to see a dwarf planet? Pluto's the most famous, but it requires a good-sized telescope and a dark sky. There are currently five known dwarf planets. Of them only Ceres, which is ...

A dwarf planet thought to have some ice mixed in with its dirty surface may have a lot more cool than we ever expected. "We think that there's lots of water-ice near Ceres's surface, and that it gets ...