Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may hold answers to fundamental questions about the Solar System. This dwarf ...
The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.
Researchers expect similar sodium salts to be found on the dwarf planet Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's Enceladus, and ...
How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially ...
"By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle, we reconstruct the formation history of these systems." ...
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, which they have named Pegasus VII. The ...
Mercury and Saturn are neighbors in the sky, about a half a fist held upright and at arm’s length above the west-southwestern ...
Data from the former ROSAT X-ray satellite have revealed a network of 68 galaxy clusters in the nearby universe, stretching over 1.4 billion light-years. Averaged over very large volumes, the universe ...
The neutrino observatory KM3Net is located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea and measures a cosmic neutrino at the highest energies to date Neutrinos are among the most mysterious elementary ...
The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...
(Earth, of course, is the eighth planet, and poor Pluto was demoted in 2006 and is now considered a dwarf planet.) Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye.