A recent study scheduled to be presented at the Geological Society of America’s GSA Connects 2023 meeting examines the possibility of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest planetary object that resides ...
Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: One of the most exciting findings from NASA’s Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, hosts complex organics. The ...
Sometimes planetary physics is like being in a snowball fight. Most people, if handed an already-formed snowball, can use their experience and the feel of the ball to guess what kind of snow it is ...
NASA conducted a new tabletop simulation of discovering a large asteroid headed for Earth. Experts feared Congress wouldn't fund a mission to an asteroid with a 72% chance of impacting Earth. This ...